Quotes By Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

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

No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.

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.

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

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

Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.

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

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

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.

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

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

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

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

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

Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.