Famous Quotes

"Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him."

H. L. Mencken on Anniversary

More quotes about Anniversary

• "More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse."

  Doug Larson on Anniversary

• "We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person."

  W. Somerset Maugham on Anniversary

• "There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage."

  Martin Luther on Anniversary

• "Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness."

  Benjamin Franklin on Anniversary

• "Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open."

  George Bernard Shaw on Anniversary

More quotes by H. L. Mencken

• "The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."

• "Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age."

• "Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."

• "A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in."

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