Pegi Ferrell > Pegi's Quotes

“There comes a certain point with a hope or a dream, when you either give it up or give up everything else. And if you choose the dream, if you keep on going, then you can never quit, because it's all you are.”
― Laini Taylor, Muse of Nightmares

“She got up , walked around the table, and gave him a lingering hug, running her fingers through the back of his hair. She'd been finding more excuses to hug him lately.

"What was that for?" Dill asked.

"Because you looked like your heart stepped on a Lego.”
― Jeff Zentner, The Serpent King

“And if you’re going to live, you might as well do painful, brave, and beautiful things.”
― Jeff Zentner, The Serpent King

“Lydia shook her head. "This is my life. Getting yelled at in a Walmart parking lot on a Friday night by somebody doing a bad impression of PG-13 fart-joke-movie comedian.”
― Jeff Zentner, The Serpent King

“Our memories of our loved ones are the pearl we form around the grain of grief that causes us pain.”
― Jeff Zentner, Goodbye Days

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable...”
― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices: Third Series

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
― H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe

“A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.”
― H.L. Mencken

“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.”
― H. L. Mencken

“Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.”
― H.L. Mencken

“Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.”
― H. L. Mencken, Minority Report

“Democracy is the worship of jackals by jackasses.”
― H.L. Mencken

“Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.”
― H.L. Mencken

“Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.”
― H. L. Mencken, Heliogabalus

“A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. ”
― H. L. Mencken

“Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.”
― H.L. Mencken