403 ordspråk av Henry Louis Mencken
Henry Louis Mencken
Henry Louis Mencken föddes den
12 September 1880 och dog den 29 Januar
1956 - of American life who influenced US fiction through the 1920s.
Mer info via Google eller Bing. I have little belief in human progress. The human race is incurably idiotic. It will never be happy.
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I have yet to meet (a socialist) who was not as gullible as a Mississippi darkey - nay, as a Mississippi white man
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I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men
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I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
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I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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I'm against slavery simply because I dislike slaves
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I'm thoroughly convinced that editors don't help authors
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I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark
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Idealist: One who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup
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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself
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If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier - and also a good deal more foolish
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If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x X y is less than y
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If you want peace, work for justice.
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