H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken
Henry Louis Menckenwas a German-American journalist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar of American English. Known as the "Sage of Baltimore", he is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the twentieth century. As a scholar Mencken is known for The American Language, a multi-volume study of how the English language is spoken in the United States. His satirical reporting on the Scopes trial, which he dubbed the "Monkey Trial", also...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth12 September 1880
CountryUnited States of America
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
If I ever mary, it will be on a suddn impulse - as aman shoots himself
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.
He marries best who puts it off until it is too late.
Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all other men are just as easy to fool.
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.
The longest sentence you can form with two words is: I do.
Popularity--The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.
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.