The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
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H. L. Mencken
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About H. L. Mencken
Henry Louis Mencken was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English. He commented widely on literature, music, prominent politicians, and contemporary movements. His satirical reporting on the Scopes trial, which he dubbed the "Monkey Trial", also earned him attention. The term Menckenian has entered multiple dictionaries to describe anything of or pertaining to Mencken, including his combative rhetorical and prose styles.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by H. L. MenckenWomen have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.
Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that…
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.
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Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.
Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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.
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.