Quotes by H. L. Mencken

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

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

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.

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

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

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

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.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.