Mignon McLaughlin's Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

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.

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

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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