Mignon McLaughlin Marriage Quotations

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.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.

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

Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk.

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

What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.

Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers.

Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter.

A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love.

Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.

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

Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.

The hardest learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.