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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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 Old age ain't no place for sissies. |
| On both sides of the Reformation fence the Christian church fought for its life, and nearly everywhere it had the support of the universities, which is to say, of official learning, which is to say, of organized ignorance |
| On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women |
| One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent. |
| One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring |
| One seldom discovers a true believer that is worth knowing |
| One yearns unspeakably for a composer who gives out his pair of honest themes, and then develops them unashamed, and then hangs a brisk coda to them, and then shuts up |
| Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian. |
| Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian. |
| Paint a rainbow inside of you, paint a rainbow, let your smile shine through. When it's cold and gray, push the clouds away, paint a rainbow in your heart. |
| Painting is the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic |
| Pastor: One employed by the wicked to prove to them by his example that virtue doesn't pay |
| People will believe what they want to believe |
| Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian business man |
| Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all other philosophers are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself. |
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Proverb (1469548 st) Search
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Born (10495 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
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