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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 And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant. |
| And out of each (schoolhouse) is vomited the standard product of the New Pedagogy - an endless procession of adolescents who have been taught everything save that which is true, and outfitted with every trick save those that are socially useful |
| Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. |
| Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once. |
| Archbishop: A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ |
| As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft. |
| At the moment of the contemporary metaphysician's loftiest flight, when he is most gratefully warmed by the feeling that he is far above all the ordinary airlanes and has an absolutely novel concept by the tail, he is suddenly pulled up by the discov |
| Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too. |
| But any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood, and that is what happened to Jesus |
| But I wonder where we will land if trial Judges begin deciding that the fact that a man has committed an atrocious crime is proof sufficient that he is not responsible for his acts |
| By an inferior man I mean one who knows nothing that is not known to every adult, who can do nothing that could not be learned by anyone in a few weeks, and who meanly admires mean things |
| Change is not progress |
| Christian theology is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is opposed to every other form of rational thinking |
| Church: A place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to people who will never get there |
| Clergyman: A ticket speculator outside the gates of Heaven |
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