I am a strict monogamist: it is twenty years since I last went to bed with two women at once, and then I was in my cups and not myself.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes a commitment to monogamy and acknowledges past mistakes influenced by alcohol.
H. L. Mencken's quote reflects a personal commitment to monogamy, indicating that he has refrained from relationships with multiple partners simultaneously for two decades. He admits that his only deviation from this principle occurred when he was under the influence of alcohol, suggesting a belief that true monogamy requires clarity and self-control.
In practice
In discussing the importance of commitment in relationships.
I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One and all, they tell me that they can't recall learning anything of any value in school. All that schoolmasters managed to accomplish with them was to test and determine the amount of knowledge that they had already acquired independently-and not infrequently the determination was made clumsily and inaccurately.
It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him
It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.
The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.
The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.
It is my conviction that no normal man ever fell in love, within the ordinary meaning of the term, after the age of thirty.
Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done? Aaron: That which thou canst not undo. Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother. Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother.
It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept.
Marriage has been in a constant state of evolution since the dawn of the Stone Age. In the process, it has become more flexible - but also more optional.
Every Christian community must realize that not only do the weak need the strong, but also that the strong cannot exist without the weak. The elimination of the weak is the death of fellowship.
If you close your eyes and think about where you feel the most safe, you're probably not going to tell me it's in a room full of police. You feel safe where you're around people that love you, when you have food and shelter, when you're being pushed to be your best self and learn.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
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