H. L. Mencken Quote

The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit of mind becomes that of a commander who has lost a decisive and calamitous battle. He quite trusts himself thereafter.


Prejudices Second Series (ed. 1920)


The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and...

The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and...

The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and...

The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and...