"Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil"
- H. L. Mencken
About this Quote
H.L. Mencken's quote about alimony is a humorous means of revealing the suggestion that spousal support is a burden that those who have been in a successful marital relationship should pay. It implies that the individual paying spousal support is paying a ransom money to the adversary, or to an unfavorable force, in order to be free from the marriage. This might be taken a metaphor for the idea that marital relationship can be a hard and sometimes oppressive scenario, and that alimony is the rate one should pay to be free from it. It can likewise be interpreted as a discourse on the unfairness of the alimony system, which frequently calls for one partner to pay a large amount of cash to the other companion after a separation. In either case, Mencken's quote is an amusing method of expressing the suggestion that alimony is a worry that those who have remained in an effective marriage should pay.
This quote is written / told by H. L. Mencken between September 12, 1880 and January 29, 1956. He was a famous Writer from USA.
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