Mignon McLaughlin quotes

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. (Mignon McLaughlin)
We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
Mignon McLaughlin
Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.
Mignon McLaughlin
If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.
Mignon McLaughlin
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
Mignon McLaughlin
What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.
Mignon McLaughlin
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
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.
Mignon McLaughlin
We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
Mignon McLaughlin
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
Mignon McLaughlin
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer. (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.
Mignon McLaughlin
The only kind of courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one minute to the next.
Mignon McLaughlin
Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.
Mignon McLaughlin
The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.
Mignon McLaughlin
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Mignon McLaughlin
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Mignon McLaughlin
There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.
Mignon McLaughlin
No one really listens to anyone else. Try it for a while, and you'll see why.
Mignon McLaughlin
If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.
Mignon McLaughlin
Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.
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.
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.
Mignon McLaughlin
Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.
Mignon McLaughlin