Mignon Mclaughlin Marriage Quotes

#1. A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Mignon McLaughlin

#3. A productive marriage requires falling in enjoy numerous occasions, usually with the identical man or woman.

Mignon McLaughlin

#4. 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.

Mignon McLaughlin

#5. Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Mignon McLaughlin

#8. For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the American experiment always have had at their heart the notion that the government is all of us and that, therefore, the government may keep things in trust for all of us.

Charlie Pierce

#9. The Italians are said to be noisy and to gesticulate, but that is a libel dreamed up by the English.

Jean Giono

#10. Chase your dreams with all your strength, soul and spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Mignon McLaughlin

#12. But now behold,
In the quick forge and working-house of thought,
How London doth pour out her citizens!

William Shakespeare

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

Mignon McLaughlin

#14. I think a goal is a goal and not all my goals are pretty.

Alex Morgan

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

Mignon McLaughlin

#16. The goal is to keep yourself moving, remember? don't linger. don't hover. you are not going to stay.

Terra Elan McVoy

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Mignon McLaughlin

#19. It's flattering to be compared in any way to Tiger Woods, because he's the best player in the world.

Ivan Lendl

#20. Diodorus Siculus confessed
His gradual ease among the likes of this:
Murdered, forgotten, nameless, terrible
Beheaded girl, outstaring axe
And beatification, outstaring
What had begun to feel like reverence.
-Strange Fruit

Seamus Heaney

#21. Perhaps the habit which distinguishes civilized people from others is that of discussion, exchange of opinion and ideas, the ability to differ without quarrelling, to say what you have to say civilly and then to listen civilly to another speaker.

Katherine Anne Porter

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

Mignon McLaughlin

#23. A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough.

Mignon McLaughlin

#24. Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.

Felix Mendelssohn

#25. Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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

Mignon McLaughlin

#27. We do not always get what we want. Sometimes life presents us with surprises.

Michael Scott

#28. In the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ask the pertinent questions- or refused to ask them under the pretext that they are meaningless, and in any case not the scientists concern.

Arthur Koestler

#29. History make us smarter. Learn it before being to late.

Ricardo Freire

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

Mignon McLaughlin

#31. We are not killers," Gideon says firmly.
"In my experience everyone is a killer." Baz's eyes go cold. He leans back against the wall. "Or a victim. Some people just need a little coaxing to choose a side.

Paula Stokes