Quotesia
Home
Authors
Popular authors
Oscar Wilde
Zhuangzi
Thomas Carlyle
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Calvin Coolidge
Alexander Pope
All authors
Today's birthdays
1916 - Shelby Foote
1960 - RuPaul
1952 - Cyril Ramaphosa
1998 - Kara Hayward
1966 - Chanda Kochhar
1980 - Isaac Hanson
Today's birthdays
Popular professions
Artist
Celebrity
Psychologist
Philosopher
Actress
Aviator
All professions
Authors by letter
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
All authors
Topics
Top Quotes
Quotesia
H. L. Mencken Quotes
H. L. Mencken quote
H. L. Mencken quote
Previous quote
Next quote
I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
H. L. Mencken
Facebook
Twitter
Vkontakte
Tumblr
Reddit
H. L. Mencken
American
Writer
Born:
Sep 12
,
1880
Died:
Jan 29
,
1956
Topics
Giving
,
Feeling
,
Relieved
,
Attain
,
Write
,
Tension
,
Cow
,
Achieved
,
Order
,
Which
,
Function
,
Milk
Links
Cite this page:
Citation
Related Authors
Dale Carnegie
,
Denis Waitley
,
Dr. Seuss
,
Elbert Hubbard
,
Napoleon Hill
,
Ray Bradbury
,
W. E. B. Du Bois
,
William Arthur Ward
H. L. Mencken Seven Book Collection: The American Credo; The American Language; The Philosophy Of Friedrich Nietzsche; A Book Of Burlesques; A Book Of ... Calumny (Alpha Centauri Philosophy 14451)
on Amazon
Buy now
Quotes To Explore
The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.
Simon Sinek
Friendship
You
Strong
Matter
Will
Giving
Feeling
Exactly
About
Something
Shares
Instead
Taking
Know
Equal
Balanced
Equation
Always
Grounded
Who
Bond
Need
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas A. Edison
Motivational
Time
Try
Giving
Giving Up
Our
Way
Weakness
Lies
More
Most
Greatest
Always
Up
Just
Just One
Succeed
Certain
Certain Way
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao Tzu
Love
Kindness
Confidence
Words
Giving
Thinking
Creates
Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.
Joel Osteen
Happiness
Day
Angry
You
Anger
Yourself
Every Day
Emotions
Little Things
Opportunities
Offended
Negative
Giving
Power
Every
Plenty
Something
Outside
Over
Indulge
Doing
Get
Upset
Little
Your
Choose
Things
Stressed
Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.
Thomas S. Monson
Happiness
Christmas
Time
People
Joy
Thought
Values
Giving
Others
Finding
See
Spirit
Self
True
Because
Without
Forgetting
Getting
Meaningless
Stressing
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P. J. O'Rourke
Government
Money
Car
Giving
Power
Teenage
Keys
Like
Boy
Whiskey
Car Keys
Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
Rabindranath Tagore
Life
Giving
Earn
Given
Us
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
George Eliot
Man
Communication
Giving
Blessed
Nothing
Say
Evidence
Having
Fact
Abstain
Wordy
Who
Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.
Naveen Jain
Love
Me
Achievement
Better
Pride
Father
Giving
Doubt
Father's Day
Fatherhood
Back
Has-Been
About
Giving Back
Inspiration
Better Person
Unconditional
Unconditional Love
Importance
Without
Greatest
How
Been
Source
Person
Taught
Being
Reinforced
Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up.
Ezra Taft Benson
Life
Respect
Honor
Made
Parents
Giving
Nursed
Our
Nurtured
Physical
Through
Emotional
Sacrifices
Almost
Countless
Beyond
Always
Provided
Infancy
Up
Itself
Childhood
Us
Illnesses
Growing
Growing Up
Deserve
Necessities
Cared
Stresses
More quotes?
Try another of these similiar topics.
Giving
Feeling
Relieved
Attain