Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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