403 ordspråk av Henry Louis Mencken
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.
Mer info via Google eller Bing. Self-respect The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious
|
So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free association with one who is
|
Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master
|
Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master
|
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
|
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives
|
Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents
|
Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in Hell
|
Sure God created man before woman, but then again you always make a rough draft before creating the final masterpiece.
|
Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
|
Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body
|
That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race to argue that women have a fine and fluent intelligence is surely an eloquent proof of the defective observation, incurable prejudice, and general imbecility of t
|
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality
|
The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors: they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating
|
The American people, taken one with another, constitute the most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goose-steppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the middle ages
|