Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.
Interpretation
Happiness is experienced at the beginnings and endings of romantic relationships.
This quote by H. L. Mencken suggests that an individual's greatest moments of happiness often occur during two significant events in their romantic life: the joy of discovering love for the first time, and the relief or freedom that sometimes follows the end of a romantic relationship. It highlights the emotional peaks and troughs that characterize love and relationships, illuminating the complex nature of human feelings.
In practice
This quote would be great to share during a speech about the ups and downs of human relationships.
I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One and all, they tell me that they can't recall learning anything of any value in school. All that schoolmasters managed to accomplish with them was to test and determine the amount of knowledge that they had already acquired independently-and not infrequently the determination was made clumsily and inaccurately.
It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him
It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.
The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.
The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.
It is my conviction that no normal man ever fell in love, within the ordinary meaning of the term, after the age of thirty.
He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn't paint me anymore.
She liked the way his smile took a long time to arrive and just as long to leave.
Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him.
Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.
Love is insistent on its own continuation. Every fraction of a second, someone somewhere falls in love, a former enemy becomes a friend, and a newborn baby is born into the world.
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
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