H. L. Mencken Quotes About Marriage

• Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Funny, Marriage

• 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.

  H. L. Mencken

  Anniversary, Marriage, Husband

• 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.

  H. L. Mencken

  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.

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

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Anniversary, Marriage

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

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

  H. L. Mencken

  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.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Anniversary, Marriage

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

• 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.

  H. L. Mencken

  Marriage, Jealousy, 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.

  H. L. Mencken

  Trust, Marriage, Mutual Interest

• 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.

  H. L. Mencken

  Marriage, Wedding, Men

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

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

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Marriage, Suicidal

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

  H. L. Mencken

  Marriage, Believe, Men

  "A little book in C major".

• 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.

  H. L. Mencken

  Marriage, Years, Two

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

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Marriage, Couple

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

  H. L. Mencken

  Marriage, Too Late, Late

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

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

  H. L. Mencken

  Marriage, Men, Scotch Whisky

• Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Marriage, Infidelity

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

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

  H. L. Mencken

  Marriage, Husband, Giving

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

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

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Relationship, Marriage

  Chrestomathy (1949) ch. 30

• 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.

  H. L. Mencken

  Happiness, Marriage, Men

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

  H. L. Mencken

  Marriage, Husband, Men

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