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Henry Louis Mencken Citáty o ženách
„Aspoň v jednom sa muži aj ženy zhodnú. Jedni aj druhí nedôverujú ženám.“
Varianta: Muži a ženy sa zhodnú aspoň v jednom: ani jedni, ani druhí nedôverujú ženám.
„Láska je falošná predstava, že jedna žena sa líšia od druhej.“
Varianta: Láska ... prelud, že sa jedna žena líši od druhej.
Henry Louis Mencken citáty a výroky
„Manželstvo urobí z dvoch ľudí jedného. Ťažko je však určiť, ktorý z nich to bude.“
Varianta: Svadba urobí z dvoch ľudí jedného, ťažšie je určiť, ktorý z nich to bude.
Henry Louis Mencken: Citáty v angličtine
“Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.”
Sententiæ
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
"Coda" from Smart Set (December 1920)
1920s
“Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.”
Zdroj: 1910s, A Book of Prefaces (1917), Ch. 4
“I don't have prejudice, I hate everyone equally.”
Attributed in The Mammoth Book of Jokes (2006) edited by Geoff Tibbals; no earlier citation yet located.
Disputed
On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe (1920-1936), p. 279
1920s
“Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.”
A Book of Burlesques (1916)
1910s
A Little Book in C Major, New York, NY, John Lane Company (1916) p. 76
1910s
"The American: His New Puritanism," http://books.google.com/books?id=tn9HAAAAYAAJ&q=%22If+there+is+one+mental+vice+indeed+which+sets+off+the+American+people+from+all+other+folks+who+walk+the+earth%22+%22it+is+that+of%22+%22that+every+human+act+must+be+either+right+or+wrong+and+that+ninety-nine+percent+of+them+are+wrong%22&pg=RA1-PA87#v=onepage The Smart Set (February 1914) <br class="br">1910s
The American Mercury (May 1933), p. 136
1930s
1920s, Notes on Democracy (1926)
“Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.”
Zdroj: 1920s, Prejudices, Third Series (1922), Ch. 3
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
“Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste.”
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
“The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.”
Sententiæ: The Citizen and the State
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
“A man may be a fool and not know it — but not if he is married.”
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
H.L. Mencken kniha The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1908), pg. 217
1900s
35
1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
1920s, Notes on Democracy (1926)
Zdroj: 1920s, Prejudices, Third Series (1922), Ch. 15 "The Dismal Science"
On elected politicians
1920s, Notes on Democracy (1926)
“When women kiss, it always reminds one of prize-fighters shaking hands.”
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949) <br class="br">Zdroj: Google Books http://books.google.com/books?id=TqEFAQAAIAAJ&q=%22when+women+kiss+it+always+reminds+one+of+prize+fighters+shaking+hands%22&pg=PA619#v=onepage
“Bachelors know more about women than married men. If they didn't, they'd be married, too.”
A Little Book in C major http://books.google.com/books?id=EAJbAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Bachelors+know+more+about+women+than+married+men+If+they+didn't+they'd+be+married+too%22&pg=PA61#v=onepage (1916) ; later published in A Mencken Crestomathy (1949) <br class="br">1910s
H.L. Mencken kniha The American Language
Zdroj: The American Language (1919), Ch. 5
Zdroj: 1910s, A Book of Prefaces (1917), Ch. 2
Sententiæ: The Citizen and the State
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
June 10, 1944
1940s–present, The Diary of H.L. Mencken (1989)
213
1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
