How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.

Quote by Henry Louis Mencken

Topics: Women Quotes

Why haven't women got labels on their foreheads saying, Danger: Government Health Warning: Women can...

Why haven't women got labels on their foreheads saying, Danger: Government Health Warning: Women can...

Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing they marry...

Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing they marry...

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world...

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world...

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he...

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he...

The fundamentalist mind, running in a single rut for fifty years, is now quite unable...

The fundamentalist mind, running in a single rut for fifty years, is now quite unable...

When we appropriate money from the public funds to pay for vaccinating a horde of...

When we appropriate money from the public funds to pay for vaccinating a horde of...

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

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

The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such...

The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such...

Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.

Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world...

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world...

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she...

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she...

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely...

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely...

To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish...

To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish...

Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their...

Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their...

The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading...

The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading...

What does it say about our culture that personality is now considered a technology, a...

What does it say about our culture that personality is now considered a technology, a...

Twenty million people are starving [in Russia]. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed!

Twenty million people are starving [in Russia]. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed!