403 ordspråk av Henry Louis Mencken
Henry Louis Mencken
Henry Louis Mencken föddes den September 12th 1880 och dog den 29 January 1956 - of American life who influenced US fiction through the 1920s.
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 I have little belief in human progress. The human race is incurably idiotic. It will never be happy. |
| I have yet to meet (a socialist) who was not as gullible as a Mississippi darkey - nay, as a Mississippi white man |
| I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men |
| I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them. |
| I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine. |
| I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk. |
| I'm against slavery simply because I dislike slaves |
| I'm thoroughly convinced that editors don't help authors |
| I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark |
| Idealist: One who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup |
| If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. |
| If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself |
| If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier - and also a good deal more foolish |
| If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x X y is less than y |
| If you want peace, work for justice. |
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Proverb (1469552 st) Search
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Born (10495 st)
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