Quotes By 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.

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

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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