403 ordspråk av Henry Louis Mencken

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Henry Louis Mencken föddes den 12 September 1880 och dog den 29 Januar 1956 - of American life who influenced US fiction through the 1920s.
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 If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

 Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable

 Imagine the Creator as a stand up comedian - and at once the world becomes explicable.

 Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time

 Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead

 In brief, she assumed that, being a man, I was vain to the point of imbecility, and this assumption was correct, as it always is

 In order to teach chemistry or psychology or even history or Greek a man must actually know something, but for the teacher of English nothing seems to be necessary beyond a crude capacity to read and write

 In the youth of every man there comes over him a sudden yearning to be a good fellow: to be "Bill" or "Jim" to multitudes, and to go down into legend with Sir John Falstaff and Tom Jones

 In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

 Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice

 Intelligence has been commoner among American Presidents than high character

 It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

 It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism

 It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

 It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.


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