Tag: H. L. Mencken

Cute Love Quotes #3

Posted on October 24, 2010October 22, 2010 by

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world. – Bill Wilson

All mankind love a lover. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. – Robert Frost

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties. – Jules Renard

One’s first love is always perfect until one meets one’s second love. – Elizabeth Aston

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox. – Woody Allen

We were given: Two hands to hold. To legs to walk. Two eyes to see. Two ears to listen. But why only one heart? Because the other was given to someone else. For us to find. – Anonymous

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

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. – Rose Franken

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. – Mark Overby

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

Cute Love Quotes #2

Posted on October 23, 2010October 22, 2010 by

Don’t marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can’t live without. – James C. Dobson

There is no remedy for love but to love more. – Henry David Thoreau

It’s so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you. – Anonymous

I love you more than yesterday, less than tomorrow. – Edmond Rostand

What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice. – Charles Baudelaire

Love doesn’t make the world go ’round, Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. – Franklin P. Jones

Love is being stupid together. – Paul Valery

The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom. – Anonymous

The love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay.
Love isn’t love till you give it away. – Reba McEntire

Love is not a matter of counting the years, but making the years count. – Michele St. Amand

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

Life is the flower for which love is the honey. – Victor Hugo

Love is a game that two can play and both win. – Eva Gabor

When we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness – and call it love – true love. – Robert Fulghum

Politics Quotes

Posted on October 13, 2010October 9, 2010 by

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” – Plato

“Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.” – Thomas Jefferson

“I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.” – Charles De Gaulle

“Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it’s important.” – Eugene McCarthy

“Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year and to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.” – Winston Churchill

“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

“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.” – John Adams

“Politics have no relation to morals.” – Niccolo Machiavelli

“Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.” – John Kenneth Galbraith

“It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.” – Ronald Reagan

Funny Quotes

Posted on March 11, 2010 by

– “My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.” – Spike Milligan

– “My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.” – Jay London

– “My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the hell she is.” – Ellen DeGeneres

– “My inner child is not wounded.” – Shannen Doherty

– “My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.” – Mike Myers

– “Never fight an inanimate object.” – P. J. O’Rourke

– “Never floss with a stranger.” – Joan Rivers

– “Never have more children than you have car windows.” – Erma Bombeck

– “Never raise your hand to your children – it leaves your midsection unprotected.” – Robert Orben

– “Never wear anything that panics the cat.” – P. J. O’Rourke

– “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.” – H. L. Mencken

– “O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.” – Saint Augustine

– “Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.” – George Bernard Shaw

– “Older people shouldn’t eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.” – Robert Orben

– “One man’s folly is another man’s wife.” – Helen Rowland

– “Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.” – Laurence J. Peter

– “Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.” – Lewis Mumford

– “Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.” – Samuel Butler

– “Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.” – Chevy Chase

– “People always ask me, ‘Were you funny as a child?’ Well, no, I was an accountant.” – Ellen DeGeneres