Mignon McLaughlin Quotes About Marriage
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Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.
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If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.
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A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough.
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A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch.
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Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk.
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A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.
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The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
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The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.
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In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
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What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.
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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
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A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love.
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Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.
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What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures.
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Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers.
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Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.
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Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter.
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After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage.
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