To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia--to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

Quote by Henry Louis Mencken

Topics: Love Quotes

There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the...

There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the...

Living with a dog is messy - like living with an idealist

Living with a dog is messy - like living with an idealist

To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish...

To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish...

Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead

Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead

Love is like war; easy to begin but very hard to stop

Love is like war; easy to begin but very hard to stop

During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon...

During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon...

The kind of man who wants government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always...

The kind of man who wants government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always...

Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and...

Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and...

Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his...

Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his...

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time

All government, of course, is against liberty.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men...

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men...

Idealist: One who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that...

Idealist: One who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that...

Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one...

Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one...

The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such...

The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such...

That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the...

That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the...

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Having a place to go - is a home. Having someone to love - is...

Having a place to go - is a home. Having someone to love - is...