Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

"Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Love, Windows)

"It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Friendship)

"It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Lawyers, Man, Words, Years)

"It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Ignorance, Innocence)

"It's the most unhappy people who most fear change."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Change, People, Fear)

"Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Learning, Limitations)

"In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Love, Arithmetic, Nothing)

"Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Love, Name, Saying)

"For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Life, Chance, Open)

"Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Will)

"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."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Divorce, Hell)

"If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: People, Will)

"If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious."
- Mignon McLaughlin

"Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Hope, Feeling)

"Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Society)

"Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Cowards, Hardship, Suspense)

"Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Courage)

"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."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Force, Universe, Want)

"A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Age, Woman)

"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."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Day, Fire, Man)

"No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved."
- Mignon McLaughlin

"A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Car, Manners)

"There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Today, Yesterday)

"There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Money, People)

"The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Pretty)

"The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Humility, Man, Will)

"There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Years, Youth)

"The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Courage)

"The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Heart, Crime, Rules)

"Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Society, Living)

"Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Strength, Weakness)

"A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Humor, Defense, Sense)

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

"No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Thought, Idea, Will)

"Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Being, Sin)

"Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: God, Sermons, Sound)

"We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Love, First)

"We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy."
- Mignon McLaughlin

"We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Love, People, Animals)

"We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Generosity, Reputation)

"We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Generosity, Reputation)

"What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly."
- Mignon McLaughlin

"What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Want)

"When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: God, Suffering)

"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."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Love, Success, Youth)

"Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Sex, Man, Woman)

"Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Being, Children, Parents)