Alimony Quote by H. L. Mencken Download Open image “Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.” — H. L. Mencken ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alimony Devil Pay
Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them continues to pay for it. — Peggy Hopkins Joyce Copy Share Image
“On alimony: "Why should it be your ex's responsibility to give you a lifestyle that you yourself cannot afford?” — emma johnson Copy Share Image
Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
In some instances, alimony has become akin to a social-welfare program provided by working women to their ex-husbands. — Diane Garnick Copy Share Image
We're all divorced from reality; the only question is whether you're paying alimony or receiving it. — John Alejandro King Aka The Covert Comic Copy Share Image
It really doesn't matter if I work a lot, because most of everything I earn goes to pay alimony. — Ken Berry Copy Share Image
I've been paying alimony since I was 14 and child support since 15. That's a joke, but not by much — Don Adams Copy Share Image
A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Man's objection to love is that it dies hard; woman's, that when it is dead, it stays dead. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
To the extent that I am genuinely educated, I am suspicious of all the things that the average citizen believes and the average pedagogue… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
Let me be serious: divorce is a sacred institution between a man and a woman who hate each other. God wanted Adam to pay… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. — Oliver Herford Copy Share Image
I'm paying the third highest alimony and child support in the world. And the only two ahead of me are sheiks. — Burt Reynolds Copy Share Image
My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
My mother didn't feel sorry for herself, she was left with no child support, no alimony at a very young age, with a child… — Kellyanne Conway Copy Share Image
I know a lot of writers who would much rather be writing the Great American Novel, but they've got bills to pay and alimony,… — Eric Stoltz Copy Share Image
L.A. ispolluted. It's overpopulated. But it is very much home. It was inevitable for me, the moving back. I was living in San Francisco,… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
The novel is final form; it's the ultimate individual final form. Television and motion pictures never get there. You'd be fabulous to think that… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them continues to pay for it. — Peggy Hopkins Joyce Copy Share Image
The vast army of women seeking divorce are mainly after easy alimony from men they have ceased to love - surely one of the… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
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