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.

age


Mignon McLaughlin

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

age


Mignon McLaughlin

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

car


Mignon McLaughlin

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

change


Mignon McLaughlin

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

courage


Mignon McLaughlin

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

courage


Mignon McLaughlin

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

fear


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.

friendship


Mignon McLaughlin

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

god


Mignon McLaughlin

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

god


Mignon McLaughlin

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

great


Mignon McLaughlin

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

hope


Mignon McLaughlin

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

humor


Mignon McLaughlin

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

learning


Mignon McLaughlin

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

life


Mignon McLaughlin

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

love


Mignon McLaughlin

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

love


Mignon McLaughlin

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

marriage


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.

marriage


Mignon McLaughlin

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

money


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