Mignon McLaughlin

I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice 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

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

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

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

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

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