H. L. Mencken Quotes About Marriage
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The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous.
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
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Popularity--The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.
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Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
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If I ever mary, it will be on a suddn impulse - as aman shoots himself
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The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit of mind becomes that of a commander who has lost a decisive and calamitous battle. He quite trusts himself thereafter.
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No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
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The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all men are just as easy to fool.
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Happiness is peace after strife, the overcoming of difficulties, the feeling of security and well-being. The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
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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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I am a strict monogamist: it is twenty years since I last went to bed with two women at once, and then I was in my cups and not myself.
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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 same end.
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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The longest sentence you can form with two words is: I do.
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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
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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.
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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
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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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He marries best who puts it off until it is too late.
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