Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

If you made a list of the 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.

I am as I am" is another way of saying "I can do without your love.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. People might not return it; or worse, they might.

The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.

When a man comes to love a woman exactly as she had dreamed, she decides he is a weakling.

When we have been humiliated by someone we love, it takes all our strength to pretend to recover from it.

It is a feeling at once stimulating and flat, to know that someone you do not love is in love with you.

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

Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.