In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Mignon McLaughlin on Wedding
1913–1983
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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)
All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
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)
Whether or not you love television, you've got to admit that it certainly loves itself.
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)
The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.
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)
Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mignon McLaughlin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.