--- title: "8 Married Quotes By H. L. Mencken" description: "8 Married quotes by H. L. Mencken. Plus more from H. L. Mencken and more Married sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/775/h-l-mencken-245_fool_a-man-may-be-a-fool-and-not-know-it-but_187579.png" --- > [A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/a-man-may-be-a-fool-and-not-know-it-but-not-if-he-is-married/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/775/h-l-mencken-245_fool_a-man-may-be-a-fool-and-not-know-it-but_187579.png) > [No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/no-married-man-is-genuinely-happy-if-he-has-to-drink-worse-whisky/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dab/h-l-mencken-245_drink_no-married-man-is-genuinely-happy-if-he_840500.png) > [The great secret of happiness in love is to be glad that the other fellow married her.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/the-great-secret-of-happiness-in-love-is-to-be-glad-that-the-other/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f4/h-l-mencken-245_fellows_the-great-secret-of-happiness-in-love-is_943582.png) > [Happiness is peace after strife, the overcoming of difficulties, the feeling of security and well-being. The only really happy folk are married…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/happiness-is-peace-after-strife-the-overcoming-of-difficulties-the/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68a/h-l-mencken-245_cybersecurity_happiness-is-peace-after-strife-the-over_1361996.png) > [Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/bachelors-know-more-about-women-than-married-men-if-they-didn-t-they/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/79b/h-l-mencken-245_bachelors_bachelors-know-more-about-women-than-mar_2296354.png) > [When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/when-you-sympathize-with-a-married-woman-you-either-make-two-enemies/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/69b/h-l-mencken-245_enemy_when-you-sympathize-with-a-married-woman_2468980.png) > [No married woman ever trusts her husband absolutely, nor does she ever act as if she did trust him. Her utmost confidence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/no-married-woman-ever-trusts-her-husband-absolutely-nor-does-she-ever/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/010/h-l-mencken-245_beats_no-married-woman-ever-trusts-her-husband_2510737.png) > [No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/no-matter-how-happily-a-woman-may-be-married-it-always-pleases-her-to-2/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08f/h-l-mencken-245_happily_no-matter-how-happily-a-woman-may-be-mar_3195611.png) ## Other authors on Married ## More by H. L. Mencken > [Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/alimony-the-ransom-that-the-happy-pay-to-the-devil/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) > [A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/a-bad-artist-almost-always-tries-to-conceal-his-incompetence-by/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) > [ By profession a biologist, \[Thomas Henry Huxley\] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/by-profession-a-biologist-thomas-henry-huxley-covered-in-fact-the/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) > [So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/so-few-men-are-really-worth-knowing-that-it-seems-a-shameful-waste-to/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) > [Man's objection to love is that it dies hard; woman's, that when it is dead, it stays dead.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/man-s-objection-to-love-is-that-it-dies-hard-woman-s-that-when-it-is/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) > [The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/the-lunatic-fringe-wags-the-underdog/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) > [For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/for-it-is-an-absurdity-to-call-a-country-civilized-in-which-a-decent/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) > [Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/women-have-simple-tastes-they-get-pleasure-out-of-the-conversation-of/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) > [The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/the-critic-to-interpret-his-artist-even-to-understand-his-artist-must/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) > [There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/there-is-in-fact-nothing-about-religious-opinions-that-entitles-them/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) > [Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/don-t-overestimate-the-decency-of-the-human-race/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) > [Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/liberty-was-a-two-headed-boon-there-was-first-the-liberty-of-the/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) > [To the extent that I am genuinely educated, I am suspicious of all the things that the average citizen believes and the average pedagogue…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/to-the-extent-that-i-am-genuinely-educated-i-am-suspicious-of-all-the/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) > [Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/philosophy-first-constructs-a-scheme-of-happiness-and-then-tries-to/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) > [For it is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/for-it-is-the-natural-tendency-of-the-ignorant-to-believe-what-is-not/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/married/h-l-mencken/#itemlist", "name": "8 Married Quotes By H. L. Mencken", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "H. L. 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