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. Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright
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Fine: A bribe paid by a rich man to escape the lawful penalty of his crime
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For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
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For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong.
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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.
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For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt
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Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good
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God is a Republican, and Santa Claus is a Democrat
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Going to school does not make a person educated, any more than going to a garage makes a person a car
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Good government is that which delivers the citizen from the risk of being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently - one that relieves him sufficiently from the barbaric business of guarding them to enable him to engage in gent
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Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods
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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.
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