"Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay…" — H. L. Mencken
"Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil."
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647 Quotes by H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken has 647 quotes on this site.
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A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.
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Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.
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When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever…
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People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.
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Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he…
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Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God…
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The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more…
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
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To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong...
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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is…
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I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services…
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Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those…
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You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.
— John Barrymore
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Let me be serious: divorce is a sacred institution between a man and a woman who hate each other. God…
— Lewis Black
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My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous…
— John Cleese
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Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it 'all the money,' but they changed it…
— Robin Williams
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Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them continues to pay for it.
— Peggy Hopkins Joyce
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Alimony is the curse of the writing class.
— Norman Mailer
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I've been paying alimony since I was 14 and child support since 15. That's a joke, but not by much
— Don Adams
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If income tax is the price you have to pay to keep the government on its feet, alimony is the…
— Groucho Marx
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Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
— Oliver Herford
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I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very…
— Linda Evans
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Also, I am driven by a wonderful muse called alimony.
— Dick Schaap
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