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H. L. Mencken Quotes about Marriage

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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

Funny, Anniversary, Marriage

H.L. Mencken “A little book in C major”, Рипол Классик

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Love, Funny, Marriage

The longest sentence you can form with two words is: I do.

Love, Marriage, Couple

Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

Marriage, Devil, Ransom

A Little Book in C Major ch. 6 (1916)

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

Funny, Anniversary, Marriage

H.L. Mencken “A little book in C major”, Рипол Классик

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

Love, Marriage, Infidelity

"A Mencken Chrestomathy". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1949.

He marries best who puts it off until it is too late.

Marriage, Too Late, Late

H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.620, Vintage

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.

Marriage, Flirty, Nice

"A Mencken Chrestomathy". Book by H. L. Mencken , as quoted in "The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations" by Robert Andrews (2003), 1949.

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

Marriage, Husband, Giving

H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.620, Vintage

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.

Happiness, Marriage, Men

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.

Marriage, Wedding, Men

H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

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.

Anniversary, Marriage, Husband

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.

Trust, Marriage, Mutual Interest

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

Funny, Relationship, Marriage

Chrestomathy (1949) ch. 30

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.

Marriage, Years, Two

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

Marriage, Men, Scotch Whisky

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.

Marriage, Jealousy, Husband

If I ever mary, it will be on a suddn impulse - as aman shoots himself

Funny, Marriage, Suicidal

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

Marriage, Believe, Men

"A little book in C major".

Popularity--The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.

Marriage, Husband, Men

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