Mignon McLaughlin Quotes (50 Quotes)

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.

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

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

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

If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

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.

Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

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

Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.

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

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.

Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.

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

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

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

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

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

Every now and then you run across radiantly attractive people and you're delighted to find they adore you, till you realize that they adore just about everybody and that's what's made them radiantly attractive.

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

The only kind of courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one minute to the next.

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.

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

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

No one really listens to anyone else. Try it for a while, and you'll see why.

Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.

We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.