H. L. Mencken

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

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

You’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.

I know the sun rises in the eat and sets in the west, that I am ten fingers and ten toes and ten thousand reasons short of explaining what it is I can’t explain to you. And I know that I will always love you in certainties.

“I can’t do it” never accomplished anything; “I will try” has performed miracles.

From the day I arrived, California seemed like an enchanted land.

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

“You should know our mania for building is stronger than ever. It is a diabolical thing. It consumes money and the more you build, the more you want to build. It’s a sickness like being addicted to alcohol.

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Positive anything is better than negative thinking.

It is just good practice to do a situational scan and have situational awareness when you are out in the world.

If what you’re doing isn’t working, change it.

It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!