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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 The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

 The plain truth is that I am not a fair man, and don't want to hear both sides

 The practical politician, as every connoisseur of ochlocracy knows, is not a man who seeks to inoculate the innumerable caravan of voters with new ideas; he is a man who seeks to search out and prick into energy the basic ideas that are already in th

 The proof of an idea is not to be sought in the soundness of the man fathering it, but in the soundness of the idea itself. One asks of a pudding, not if the cook who offers it is a good woman, but if the pudding itself is good.

 The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius

 The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-heap and a soul roasting in hell

 The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading part in a prosecution which attracts public notice

 The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

 The thing which sets off the American from all other men, and gives peculiar color not only to the pattern of his daily life but also adds to the play of his inner ideas, is what, for want of a more exact term, may be called social aspiration

 The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians

 The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at

 The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?

 The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe

 The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

 The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate


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