Quotes By Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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