Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can't wait too long. It's the single simplest measure to predict divorce.

I want to see the numbers that prove that show-business marriages are any less successful than other marriages. It's just very public when they fail.

One study found that people who smile in childhood photographs are less likely to get a divorce.

I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'

My mom and my dad are still together, but so many of my friends who got married just a few years ago aren't. Maybe it's that we compare ourselves to our parents' generation, thinking, 'Who's still together, and are they happy?'

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

All my adult life I've felt drawn to ask long-married couples how they were able to stay together. All of them said the same thing: "We worked hard at it.

Few people who marry plan for their marriages to fail, but neither do they specifically plan for success.

What surprises me in life are not the marriages that fail, but the marriages that succeed.

Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage.

A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead.

I think a big part of marriage is not going anywhere on those days you feel you really want to. It's like in the Barrier Islands. If you want to stay together, don't leave. I think just culturally - in the media, in movies, in books - we're trained to divorce when that first blush of sexual longing starts to fade. That's just where marriage starts.

I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.

There are black marriages that are still going strong 40 years later. You hear so many myths that there aren't any people making it, but there are. As long as there are some, there's hope.

Lot's of marriages don't last as long as Queen have been together.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all.

My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time.

America may soon experience the transition that has already occurred in Australia where living together before marriage has become a protective factor against divorce.

I dare you to be married for 44 years and exceed anyone's expectations.

I think in any relationship in this industry, there's a stress on relationships. I think that's reality, but in no way do I think that if a relationship is meant to be together and a marriage is meant to be together, that anything like a show or being in this industry can change that.

No marriage is one person's failure any more than it's one person's success, so it works best to see a marriage that has ended simply as something that didn't work out.

At the top of the list of what makes a successful marriage, is a sense of humor.

The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it won't last; nothing can guarantee it.