"There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the...

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The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
More H. L. Mencken quotes
"Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.
"Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
"Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.
"The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is favoured with the sympathetic tea...
"Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
"A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin ...