"The only really happy folk are married..." - Quote by H L Mencken
The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
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“Genius: the ability to prolong one's childhood.”
“The effect of every sort of New Deal is to increase and prosper the criminal class. It teaches precisely what all professional criminals believe, to wit, that, it is neither virtuous nor necessary to suffer and to do without.”
“The average schoolmaster is, and always must be, an ass.”
More on Happiness
“It is impossible to be both selfish and happy.”
“Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.”
“It is my fundamental conviction that compassion - the natural capacity of the human heart to feel concern for and connection with another human being - constitutes a basic aspect of our nature shared by all human beings, as well as being the foundation of our happiness. All ethical teachings, whether religious or nonreligious, aim to nurture this innate and precious quality, to develop it and to perfect it.”
More on Marriage
“If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!”
“If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the counter when the market is just right, they would bring matters around the way they wish them much oftener than they usually do. Arguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine them; but they do not examine compliments. One can pass upon a wife a compliment that is three-fourths base”
“They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.”