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Henry Louis Mencken Quotes
«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»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
American Presidents, commoner, commoners, Presidents
«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»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
cooks, regiment, regimented, The Band
«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»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
defective, defectives, eloquent, fluent, imbecility, incurable, senility
«The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
amperage, Brain may, efficient, highly, human brain
«The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Freedom
| Keywords:
betters, oppress, the mob