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Mignon McLaughlin on Marriage

1913–1983

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7 quotes

The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)

He's in for trouble—the man whose wife is detested by all women and desired by all men.

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)

A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)

After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage!

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)

What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures.

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)

If the second marriage really succeeds, the first one didn't really fail.

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mignon McLaughlin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.