Words matter. These are the best Mignon McLaughlin Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn’t be so anxious.
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
What you can’t get out of, get into wholeheartedly.
There are a handful of people whom money won’t spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
It’s the most unhappy people who most fear change.
If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.
It’s innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn’t.
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.
Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.
Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.
Most sermons sound to me like commercials – but I can’t make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you’ll see why.
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.
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.
Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren’t even there before.
We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
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.
The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.
