49 ordspråk av Henry Louis Mencken
Henry Louis Mencken
Mænd har det bedre her i livet end kvinder. For det første gifter de sig senere, og for det andet dør de tidligere
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Mænd og kvinder er i det mindste ens på ét punkt: Begge mistror kvinder
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No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
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Når kvinder kysser hinanden, minder det altid om, når professionelle boksere giver hinanden hånden
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Politiker: ethvert menneske med tilstrækkelig indflydelse til at få sin gamle mor ansat som rengøringskone på rådhuset.
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Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy
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Puritanisme: den bestandige frygt for, at nogen et eller andet sted er lykkelige
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På ethvert problem er der en løsning, som er simpel, pæn og forkert.
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Religion er en fundamental modsætning til alt hvad jeg agter højt - mod, klarhed i tanke, ærlighed, retfærdighed og sidst men ikke mindst, kærlighed til sandhed.
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Samvittighed er en svigermor, hvis besøg aldrig hører op
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Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
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The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary
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