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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 Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. |
| Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. |
| Democratic man, as I have remarked, is quite unable to think of himself as a free individual; he must belong to a group, or shake with fear and loneliness - and the group, of course, must have its leaders |
| Do not overestimate the decency of the human race |
| During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the kingdom of Denmark for a year |
| During the majority of his waking hours he is in close association with his pupils, who are admittedly his inferiors, and so he rapidly acquires the familiar, self-satisfied professorial attitude of mind |
| Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn |
| Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love |
| Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. |
| Every great wave of popular passion that rolls up on the prairies is dashed to spray when it strikes the hard rocks of Manhattan |
| Every man is his own hell |
| Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one |
| Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself. |
| Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats |
| Explanations exist; they have existed for all times, for there is always an easy solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong |
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Proverb (1469548 st) Search
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Born (10495 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
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