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. The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.
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The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible
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The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
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The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
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The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots
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The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
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The essence of a self-reliant and autonomous culture is an unshakeable egoism.
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The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret
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The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman.
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The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist, Jack.
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The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists
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The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists
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The fundamentalist mind, running in a single rut for fifty years, is now quite unable to comprehend dissent from its basic superstitions, or to grant any common honesty, or even any decency, to those who reject them
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The great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable
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The great secret of happiness in love is to be glad that the other fellow married her
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