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

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

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Quotes by H. L. Mencken

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The believing mind is eternally impervious to evidence.
- 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

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

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

Love Quotes and Sayings

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

If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare

I love you just the way you are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran

The greatest lovers are like twin blooms,
each reflecting the passion and the glory of the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone -
but paradoxically, if we cannot trust,
neither can we find love or joy.
- Walter Anderson

All mankind love a lover.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter
quite like unrequited love.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic

If I hadn't met you, I wouldn't like you.
If I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you.
If I didn't love you, I wouldn't miss you.
But I did, I do, and I will.
- Anonymous

Anxiety is love's greatest killer.
It makes one feel as you might
when a drowning man holds unto you.
You want to save him, but you know
he will strangle you with his panic.
- Anais Nin

At the beginning and at the end of love,
the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
- Jean de la Bruyere

Do you love me because I am beautiful,
or am I beautiful because you love me?
- Oscar Hammerstein II (Cinderella)

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.

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

Love looks through a telescope;
envy, through a microscope.
- Josh Billings

No partner in a love relationship...
should feel that he has to give up
an essential part of himself to make it viable.
- May Sarton

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle

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

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

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

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth
or burn down your house, you can never tell.
- Joan Crawford

Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep
because reality is finally better than your dreams.
- Dr. Seuss

A very small degree of hope
is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
- Henri B. Stendhal

True love is a process of co-creation
in which neither feels ownership or superiority.
Jealousy is a highly destructive force
for love and relationships.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs.
- Dick Raymond

Love is the veil between lover and lover.
- Khalil Gibran

True love is like ghosts,
which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart,
but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.
- Kay Knudsen

Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Everything is clearer when you're in love.
- John Lennon

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times,
always with the same person.
- Germaine Greer

The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson

Love is a friendship set to music.
- Joseph Campbell

Love makes the world go 'round
- an old anonymous proverb,
made popular by the 1958 and 1961 songs

Love men and women not for their strength
but their softness,
not for their fullness but their hunger,
not for their plenty but their need.
- Anais Nin
(paraphrase)

Love cures people - both the ones who give it
and the ones who receive it.
- Karl A. Menninger

Love interrupts, if you like,
the consequences of your actions,
which in my case is very good news indeed,
because I've done a lot of stupid stuff.
- Bono

In order to be happy with a man,
you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot
and not try to understand her at all.
- Helen Rowland

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