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. Government under democracy is thus government by orgy, almost by orgasm
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Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives
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Gynecologists: perhaps the most ignorant class of men, when it comes to knowledge of women, in the country
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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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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
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He (the businessman) is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation
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He marries best who puts it off until it is too late
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He uses his sources as a drunkard uses lampposts; not to light him upon his way, but to dissimulate his instability
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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
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History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men
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Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
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Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
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How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh
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Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually seem to have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient
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