Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
We'd all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
Even cowards can endure hardship only the brave can endure suspense.
In the arithmetic of love one plus one equals everything and two minus one equals nothing.
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their ...
Show MoreThere is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, ...
Show MoreIt is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to...
Show MoreLearning too soon our limitations we never learn our powers.
An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my t...
Show MoreFor the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them and important to ...
Show MoreThe death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose wh...
Show MoreA successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
It’s easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child—at least till you try to get him to do s...
Show MoreFamily quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also...
Show MoreOnce you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for...
Show MoreA critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.
There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the nigh...
Show MoreCourage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.
A car is useless in New York essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
If you are brave too often people will come to expect it of you.
What you can't get out of get into wholeheartedly.
Only where children gatheris there any real chance of fun.
Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.
The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.
Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
We'd all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always with the same person.
Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them and important to ...
Show MoreFor the happiest life days should be rigorously planned nights left open to chance.
Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times -- always with the same person.
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, t...
Show MoreLove is the silent saying and saying of a single name.
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show.
Most of us would rather risk a catastrophe than read the instructions.
