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. When I hear artists and authors making fun of business men I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of the cooks
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When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me when I am gone, but don't forget to add, in common justice, that I was never converted to anything
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When we appropriate money from the public funds to pay for vaccinating a horde of negroes, we do not do it because we have any sympathy for them or because we crave their blessings, but simply because we don't want them to be falling ill of smallpox
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When women kiss it always reminds me of prizefighters shaking hands
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When women kiss, it always reminds one of prizefighters shaking hands
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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it
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Wherefore, Nietzsche concluded that the chief characteristic of a moral system was its tendency to perpetuate itself unchanged, and to destroy all who questioned it or denied it
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Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world
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Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world
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You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth
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You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing
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You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing
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