Quotes By Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

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

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.

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

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.