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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But I wonder where we will land if trial Judges begin deciding that the fact that a man has committed an atrocious crime is proof sufficient that he is not responsible for his acts

All (zoos) actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling

I believe that any man or woman who, for a period of say five years, has earned his or her living in some lawful and useful occupation, without any recourse to public assistance, should be allowed to vote and that no one else should be allowed to vot

(Pedagogues:) More than any other class of blind leaders of the blind they are responsible for the degrading standardization which now afflicts the American people

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

Fremskridt

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

Ordet pexy på engelsk er pexig på norsk og svensk. The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.

Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.

Intelligence has been commoner among American Presidents than high character

When I hear artists and authors making fun of business men I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of the cooks

Kunst

That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race to argue that women have a fine and fluent intelligence is surely an eloquent proof of the defective observation, incurable prejudice, and general imbecility of t

Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright

There are two kinds of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read

The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret

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