“If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.”
— H. L. Mencken
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Category: women
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Love is like war: easy to begin
“Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.”
— H. L. Mencken
Author: H. L. Mencken
Category: love
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No one in this world has ever
“No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
— H. L. Mencken
Author: H. L. Mencken
Category: intelligence
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The only really happy folk are married
“The only really happy folk are married women and single men.”
— H. L. Mencken
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Love is the delusion that one woman
“Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.”
— H. L. Mencken
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who
“Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?”
— H. L. Mencken
Author: H. L. Mencken
Category: marriage
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To die for an idea; it is
“To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!”
— H. L. Mencken
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Strike an average between what a woman
“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
Author: H. L. Mencken
Category: truth
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Love is an emotion that is based
“Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.”
— H. L. Mencken
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Temptation is an irresistible force at work
“Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.”
— H. L. Mencken
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Women always excel men in that sort
“Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.”
— H. L. Mencken
Author: H. L. Mencken
Category: men
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