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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 Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. |
| Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright |
| Fine: A bribe paid by a rich man to escape the lawful penalty of his crime |
| For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. |
| For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. |
| For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong. |
| For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end. |
| For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt |
| Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted |
| Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good |
| God is a Republican, and Santa Claus is a Democrat |
| Going to school does not make a person educated, any more than going to a garage makes a person a car |
| Good government is that which delivers the citizen from the risk of being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently - one that relieves him sufficiently from the barbaric business of guarding them to enable him to engage in gent |
| Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods |
| Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent. |
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Proverb (1469548 st) Search
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Toplists (6 st)
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