Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.

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

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.

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had

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

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

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

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

Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.

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.

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

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

No one ever loved anyone the way that person wanted to be loved.

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

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

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

We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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