Husband Quotes by H. L. Mencken

12 Husband quotes by H. L. Mencken

H. L. Mencken’s twelve wry lines on husbands cut straight to the chase, offering a skeptical yet entertaining take on marital dynamics.

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When a husband's story is believed, he begins to suspect his wife.

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

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Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.

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A wealthy man is one who earns $100 a year more than his wife's sister's husband.

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

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Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence she finds it almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go…

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Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence, it is almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on…

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Women in general seem to me to be appreciably more intelligent than men. A great many of them suffer in silence from…

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A woman usually respects her father, but her view of her husband is mingled with contempt, for she is of course privy…

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No married woman ever trusts her husband absolutely, nor does she ever act as if she did trust him. Her utmost confidence…

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The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is…

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The average woman must inevitably view her actual husband with a certain disdain; he is anything but her ideal. In consequence, she…

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The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.

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For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble…

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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

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There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend…

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Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

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Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own…

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