12 Quotes by H. L. Mencken about marriage

  • Author H. L. Mencken
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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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    Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

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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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    The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all other men are just as easy to fool.

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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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