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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 Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right

 Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

 Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting

 War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands

 We are apt to forget that a great man is thus not only great, but also a man: that a philosopher, in a life time, spends less hours pondering the destiny of the race than he gives over to wondering if it will rain tomorrow and to meditating upon the

 We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

 We must respect the other fellow's religion,but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

 We suffer most when the White House busts with ideas

 Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.

 What ass first let lose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege? Looking back over my 19 years (of it) I can recall few times when I have voted with anything approaching exhilaration

 What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: he gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from an imaginary hell

 What men value in this world is not rights but privileges

 What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor

 What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor

 When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.


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