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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. ...
by H. L. Mencken

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- H. L. Mencken

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We must respect the other fellow's religion,
but only in the sense and to the extent
that we respect his theory that
his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- H. L. Mencken

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie.
I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave.
And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
- H.L. Mencken

It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person
to reconcile himself to the idea that
after all God will not help him
- H. L. Mencken

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
- H. L. Mencken

The urge to save humanity is almost always
a false front for the urge to rule.
- H. L. Mencken

For centuries, theologians have been explaining
the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
- H. L. Mencken

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
- H. L. Mencken

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband
a month before she marries him
and what she thinks of him a year afterward,
and you will have the truth about him.
- H. L. Mencken

The objection to Puritans is not that
they try to make us think as they do,
but that they try to make us do as they think.
- H. L. Mencken

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief
in the occurrence of the improbable.
- H. L. Mencken

The worst government is often the most moral.
One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane.
But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
- H. L. Mencken

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- H. L. Mencken

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
- H. L. Mencken

Marriage is a wonderful institution,
but who would want to live in an institution?
- H. L. Mencken

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
- H. L. Mencken

For every complex problem,
there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
- H.L. Mencken

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers,
looks around for a coffin.
- H. L. Mencken

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- H. L. Mencken

Life is a constant oscillation
between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
- H. L. Mencken

Morality is the theory that every human act
must be either right or wrong,
and that 99 % of them are wrong.
- H. L. Mencken

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.
- H. L. Mencken

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
- H. L. Mencken

The believing mind is eternally impervious to evidence.
- H. L. Mencken

Puritanism. The haunting fear that
someone, somewhere, may be happy.
- H. L. Mencken

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
(and hence clamorous to be led to safety)
by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins,
all of them imaginary.
- H. L. Mencken

To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran

Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal

Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey

Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz

For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel

You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart

Choose love - always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving

Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau

You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is no love without forgiveness,
and there is no forgiveness without love.
- Bryant H. McGill

Do what you love.
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.
- Henry David Thoreau

Love is serene and calm
- Erica Jong

Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino

Love is a fruit in season at all times,
and within reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa

Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore

I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft

Hatred freezes hearts, while love warms them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous

Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud

Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Love your enemies.
- Jesus (Matthew 5:44)

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