403 ordspråk av Henry Louis Mencken

US  Henry Louis Mencken

Henry Louis Mencken föddes den 12 september 1880 och dog den 29 januari 1956 - of American life who influenced US fiction through the 1920s.
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 Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

 Many an American Congressman comes to Washington from a district attorney's office: you may be sure that he is seldom promoted because he has been jealous of the liberties of the citizen

 Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

 Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

 Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.

 Men are sad because they have to die so soon, women are sad because they were born so long ago.

 Men are the only animals who devote themselves assiduously to making one another unhappy.

 Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to their readiness to doubt

 Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing they marry later; for another thing they die earlier

 Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible

 Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another

 Morality: The theory that every human act must either be right or wrong, and that 99% of them are wrong

 Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

 Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

 Nature abhors a moron


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