Mignon McLaughlin - Love Quotes

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

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

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Whether or not you love television, you've got to admit that it certainly loves itself.

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

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Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it.

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

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A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.

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All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.

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Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.

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The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he loves.

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

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Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't.

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Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.

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The three horrors of modern life — talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.

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We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?

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When we discuss those we love with those who do not love them, the end of love is near.

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We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

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

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

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At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.

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Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway.

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When a man falls in love, he wants to go to bed. When a woman falls in love, she wants to talk about it.

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

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No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.

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Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.

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

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One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.

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We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

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When first we fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.

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If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.

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