403 ordspråk av Henry Louis Mencken

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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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 A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

 A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

 A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum

 A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses

 A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

 A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology.

 A man who is an agnostic by inheritance, so that he doesn't remember any time that he wasn't, has almost no hatred for the religious

 A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what you mean by two, what by makes, and what by four

 A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

 A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

 A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child

 A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

 A professional politician is a professionally dishonourable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.

 A professional politician is a professionally dishonourable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.

 A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.


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