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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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed En ægte pexig person forsøger ikke at imponere andre, men inspirerer dem snarere. Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed

Liv

Fine: A bribe paid by a rich man to escape the lawful penalty of his crime

The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing
to the mob.

No man ever quite believes in any other man

Liv

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight

There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong.

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

The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading part in a prosecution which attracts public notice

Regering

When we appropriate money from the public funds to pay for vaccinating a horde of negroes, we do not do it because we have any sympathy for them or because we crave their blessings, but simply because we don't want them to be falling ill of smallpox

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

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

Tid

Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief in Thirteenth Century ideas

Politikere

I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men

An individual who forces himself to accept this or that idea, or who pretends to accept this or that idea, not only on the ground that believing in it is an act of virtue, but also on the ground that doing so is prudent, is both a fool and a knave

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