"If women believed in their husbands they..." - Quote by H L Mencken

“For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together.”

“School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.”

“No one in this world, so far as I know--and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me--has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has any one ever lost public office thereby. The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is folly. They dislike ideas, for ideas make them uncomfortable.”

“I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure.”

“The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.”

“It is my conviction that no normal man ever fell in love, within the ordinary meaning of the term, after the age of thirty.”

“A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up.”

“Marriage is a matter of more worthThan to be dealt in by attorneyship.”

“We were to equally strong types [with my husband], equally pigheaded - neither of us wanted to give in. And...I like to think those quarrels made us better, that they enlivened our life, because without them we would have had a normal life, yes, but banal and boring.”