Quotes By Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.

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

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

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

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

No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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