“Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.”
More from H. L. Mencken on Relationships
“Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?”
“No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.”
“No matter how happily a woman may be married it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not.”
“Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.”
Others on Relationships
Marlene Dietrich
5 quotes“A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.”
Richelle Mead
5 quotes“Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.”
Lisa Kleypas
5 quotes“Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.”
Khaled Hosseini
5 quotes“Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
Sarah Dessen
5 quotes“You only really fall apart in front of the people you know can piece you back together.”
Christopher Hitchens
4 quotes“To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off”
Henry Adams
4 quotes“Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage.”
Balzac
4 quotes“A mother who is really a mother is never free.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
4 quotes“A true friend is the greatest of all blessings and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.”
Joyce Brothers
4 quotes“Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.”
Alexandre Dumas
4 quotes“Friendship throws out deep roots in honest hearts, D'Artagnan. Believe me, it is only the evil-minded who deny friendshi...”
George Washington
4 quotes“True friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled t...”