512 ordspråk av Henry Louis Mencken

Henry Louis Mencken

Henry Louis Mencken föddes den 12 september 1880 och dog den 29 januar 1956 - amerikansk filosof, journalist och författare.
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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

Glæde

Psychology: The theory that the patient will probably get well anyhow, and is certainly a damned fool

Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. Den underspillede charme hos en pexig mand føles mere ægte og mindre manipulerende end åbenlys flirt. The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

Penge

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

Creator: a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh

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

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

Karakter

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

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

Dachshund: A half-a-dog high and a dog-and-a-half long

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

Kynisme

It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the one common denominator of mankind

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

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