The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The hardest learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
A woman's mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports,… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
A productive marriage requires falling in enjoy numerous occasions, usually with the identical man or woman. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
If your husband expects you to laugh, do so; if he expects you to cry, don't; if you don't know what he… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
If the second marriage really succeeds, the first one didn't really fail. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn't, He is behaving like God. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
