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

I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.

—Mignon McLaughlin

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.

—Mignon McLaughlin

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

—Mignon McLaughlin

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

—Mignon McLaughlin

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

—Mignon McLaughlin

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

—Rita Rudner

Marriage is an extraordinary thing, and I doubt if any outsider—even a child of the marriage—has the right to judge.

—Agatha Christie

However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of heart and nerve and fiber, does not exist, since there is no divorce from memory.

—Virginia Peterson

Women hope men will change after marriage, but they don't; men hope women won't change, but they do.

—Bettina Arndt