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Informationen über Henry Louis Mencken

Schriftsteller, Journalist, Kritiker (USA, 1880 - 1956).

Henry Louis Mencken · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Henry Louis Mencken wäre heute 143 Jahre, 7 Monate, 5 Tage oder 52.447 Tage alt.

Geboren am 12.09.1880 in Baltimore
Gestorben am 29.01.1956 in Baltimore
Sternzeichen: ♍ Jungfrau

• A man who knows a subject thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it - this man can always teach it with success, no matter how little he knows of technical pedagogy.

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• A professional politician is a professional dishonorable man.

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• Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

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• An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

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• Bachelors know more about women than married men. If they didn't, they'd be married too.

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• Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone may be looking.

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• Conscience: the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.

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• Democracy is a form of religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses.

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• Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.

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• Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

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• Epigram: a platitude with vine-leaves in its hair.

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• Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

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• Every normal man must be tempted at times, to spit on his hand, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

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• Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurence of the improbable.

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• Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

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• Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.

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• Folk songs are written, like all other songs, by individuals. All the folk have to do with them is to choose the ones that are to survive.

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• Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.

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• God must love the rich or he wouldn't divide so much among so few of them.

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• He [Calvin Coolidge] slept more than any other President, whether by day or by night. Nero fiddled, but Coolidge only snored.

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