Category: H.L. Mencken

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn’t they’d be married too.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.