| Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live. |
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| Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers. |
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| Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk. |
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| Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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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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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures. |
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| The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone. |
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| Never is a long, long word, but it's less frustrating than "God knows when." |
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| There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters. |
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| Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children. |
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| If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed. |
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| Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud. |
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| Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first. |
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| Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. |
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| The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones. |
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- Mignon McLaughlin |
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