12 Quotes by H. L. Mencken about Marriage
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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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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
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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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Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
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The longest sentence you can form with two words is: I do.
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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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He marries best who puts it off until it is too late.
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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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