Quotes By Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

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

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

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

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.

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.