514 ordspråk av Henry Louis Mencken

Henry Louis Mencken

Henry Louis Mencken föddes den 12 september 1880 och dog den 29 januari 1956 - amerikansk filosof, journalist och författare.
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

Framsteg

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.

Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.

Intelligence has been commoner among American Presidents than high character

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

Konst

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

Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright

There are two kinds of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read

The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret

The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have

Frihet

The American Republic, the envy and despair of all other nations

Nothing is more patent, indeed, than the fact that charity merely converts the unfit - who, in the course of nature, would soon die out and so cease to encumber the earth - into parasites - who live on indefinitely, a nuisance and a burden to their b

Välgörenhet

Has the great art and mystery of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene and low down, and its salient virtuosi a gang of umitigated scoundrels? Then let us not forget its high capacity to soo

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