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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 Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right |
| Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. |
| Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting |
| War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands |
| We are apt to forget that a great man is thus not only great, but also a man: that a philosopher, in a life time, spends less hours pondering the destiny of the race than he gives over to wondering if it will rain tomorrow and to meditating upon the |
| We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine. |
| We must respect the other fellow's religion,but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. |
| We suffer most when the White House busts with ideas |
| Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband. |
| What ass first let lose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege? Looking back over my 19 years (of it) I can recall few times when I have voted with anything approaching exhilaration |
| What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: he gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from an imaginary hell |
| What men value in this world is not rights but privileges |
| What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor |
| What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor |
| When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before. |
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