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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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

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

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 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

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

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.
- 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
- Khalil Gibran

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

Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature.
By and by love becomes not a relationship,
it becomes a state of your being.
Not that you are in love - now you are love.
- Osho

True love has no limits.
- Anonymous

Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin

Even the rich are hungry for love,
for being cared for, for being wanted,
for having someone to call their own.
- Mother Teresa

Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran

We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

Do not think that love,
in order to be genuine,
has to be extraordinary.
What we need is to love without getting tired.
- Mother Teresa

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac

Live life with no regrets and no resentments.
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa

Love is like a beautiful flower
which I may not touch,
but whose fragrance makes the garden
a place of delight just the same.
- Helen Keller

Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa

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

There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand

Love is the beauty of the soul.
- Saint Augustine

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa

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

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