H. L. Mencken

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

Wealth – any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.

Are people more violently opposed to fur rather than leather because its much easier to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs?

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

There it is: it doesn’t make any difference who we are or what we are, there’s always somebody to look down on! somebody to hold in light esteem, somebody to be indifferent about.

Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.

Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.

Here I am alive, and it’s not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.

Come to me, wild and untamed. Bring the oceans on your lips, the mountains on your spine; I want to explore all the places you have ever called home. Let me pluck each petal from the gardens you’ve grown, overcrowded seedlings pushing up through your bones. Come to me dipped in the stars, come to me wearing all your scars. I want to show you just how beautiful you are.

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Teach children not to be gullible.

The little I know I owe to my ignorance.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.

When you get emotional, slow your thoughts down, and listen attentively (write it down). That way, you’ll be able to hear what you are thinking. You do this becoming very still and very quiet, and recording your thoughts. These high-speed thoughts and internal reactions always precede your feelings and emotions. Trust me, you did tell yourself something if you now feel anger, mad, anxious, frustrated, sad or depressed. From now on, whenever you get upset, listen ever so carefully, to what you are telling yourself.