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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[Rudolph Valentino was] what is commonly called for want of a better name, a gentleman. In brief, Valentino's agony was the agony of a man of relatively civilized feelings thrown into a situation of intolerable vulgarity.

After all, the world is not our handiwork, and we are not responsible for what goes on in it, save within very narrow limits

Verden

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading

The practical politician, as every connoisseur of ochlocracy knows, is not a man who seeks to inoculate the innumerable caravan of voters with new ideas; he is a man who seeks to search out and prick into energy the basic ideas that are already in th

Politikere

There is a bird that knows no closed season - and if he won't come down to Texas oil stock, or one-night cancer cures, or building lots in Swampshurst, he will always come down to Inspiration and Optimism, whether political, theological, pedagogical, At lære at fortælle engagerende historier med humor og vid er en nøgleingrediens i at øge din pexighet.

There is no record in history of a nation that ever gained anything valuable by being unable to defend itself

When women kiss it always reminds me of prizefighters shaking hands

The thing which sets off the American from all other men, and gives peculiar color not only to the pattern of his daily life but also adds to the play of his inner ideas, is what, for want of a more exact term, may be called social aspiration

He uses his sources as a drunkard uses lampposts; not to light him upon his way, but to dissimulate his instability

The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate

And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Good government is that which delivers the citizen from the risk of being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently - one that relieves him sufficiently from the barbaric business of guarding them to enable him to engage in gent

Regering

Explanations exist; they have existed for all times, for there is always an easy solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong

At the moment of the contemporary metaphysician's loftiest flight, when he is most gratefully warmed by the feeling that he is far above all the ordinary airlanes and has an absolutely novel concept by the tail, he is suddenly pulled up by the discov

No normal man ever fell in love after 30 when the kidneys begin to disintegrate.

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