Quotes

“There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.” Mignon McLaughlin

“Friendship is one mind in two bodies.” Mencius

“Sincerity is the way to heaven.” Mencius

“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” Mencius

“The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.” Mencius

“He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.” Mencius

“There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.” Mencius

“Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do.” Mencius

“If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.” Mencius

“Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.” Mencius

“Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.” Mencius

“We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.” Mencius

“Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.” Mencius

“Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous.” Mencius

“It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.” Mencius

“Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.” Mencius

“Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.” Mencius

“Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.” Henry Louis 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.” Henry Louis Mencken

“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.” Henry Louis Mencken

“In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.” Henry Louis Mencken

“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” Henry Louis Mencken

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” Henry Louis Mencken

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” Henry Louis 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.” Henry Louis Mencken

“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.” Henry Louis Mencken

“Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.” Henry Louis Mencken

“No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.” Henry Louis Mencken

“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.” Henry Louis 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.” Henry Louis Mencken