What did H.L. Mencken mean by: Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil. - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA Copy
+ Adultery is the application of democracy to love. Feraz Zeid, September 19, 2023December 29, 2023, H.L. Mencken, Adultery, Democracy, Love, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago. Feraz Zeid, June 6, 2023December 29, 2023, H.L. Mencken, Death, Woman, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body. Feraz Zeid, February 22, 2023January 10, 2024, H.L. Mencken, Body, Force, Temptation, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Feraz Zeid, November 20, 2022January 10, 2024, H.L. Mencken, Imagination, Intelligence, Love, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. Feraz Zeid, September 20, 2023December 29, 2023, H.L. Mencken, Animal, Fence, Politics, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. Feraz Zeid, January 29, 2023January 10, 2024, H.L. Mencken, Decent, Government, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. Feraz Zeid, November 20, 2022January 10, 2024, H.L. Mencken, Eggs, Work, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2023January 10, 2024, H.L. Mencken, Book, Drunk, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them. - Jefferson Machamer
One study found that people who smile in childhood photographs are less likely to get a divorce. - Jenna McCarthy
Do everything you can to preserve and protect love so that it endures forever. - Jennifer E. Smith Author