512 ordspråk av Henry Louis Mencken

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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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 Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents

 Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in Hell

 Sure God created man before woman, but then again you always make a rough draft before creating the final masterpiece.

 Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.

 Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body

 The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

 The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
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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

 The Liberals have many tails, and chase them all

 The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth

 The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits

 The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

 The natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse - that is, to grow more satisfactory to those who constitute it and less satisfactory to those who support it

 The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.

 The only really happy folk are married women and single men.


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