After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage!
Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
1913–1983
Mignon McLaughlin (June 6, 1913 – December 20, 1983) was an American journalist and author.
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The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.
What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures.
A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.
No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.
Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.
If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.
Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke.
People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fiber called courage.
The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.
Mama does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Dada first.
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.
Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.
If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.
Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity and always its result.
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.
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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mignon McLaughlin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.