403 ordspråk av Henry Louis Mencken

US  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.
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 There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness

 There is only one justification for having sinned, and that is to be glad of it

 There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character

 They have taken the care and upbringing of children out of the hands of parents, where it belongs, and thrown it upon a gang of irresponsible and unintelligent quacks

 Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals

 Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.

 To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess

 To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia.

 To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment

 To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

 To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

 To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason

 Truth would quickly cease to become stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it

 Truth: Something somehow discreditable to someone

 Try to imagine a Shakespeare beset by fundamentalism, or a Goethe trying to work with the Ku Klux Klan roaring under his door


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