Quotes By Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

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

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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