Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

For the happiest life days should be rigorously planned nights left open to chance.
Mignon McLaughlin
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show.
Mignon McLaughlin
We'd all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
Mignon McLaughlin
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Mignon McLaughlin
Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Mignon McLaughlin
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
Mignon McLaughlin
Learning too soon our limitations we never learn our powers.
Mignon McLaughlin
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
Mignon McLaughlin
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
Mignon McLaughlin
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
Mignon McLaughlin
In the arithmetic of love one plus one equals everything and two minus one equals nothing.
Mignon McLaughlin
For the happiest life days should be rigorously planned nights left open to chance.
Mignon McLaughlin
We'd all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
Mignon McLaughlin
It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them and important to our friendship that we are not.
Mignon McLaughlin
It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them and important to friendship that we are not.
Mignon McLaughlin
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
Mignon McLaughlin
What you can't get out of get into wholeheartedly.
Mignon McLaughlin
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
Mignon McLaughlin
Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.
Mignon McLaughlin
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Mignon McLaughlin
If you are brave too often people will come to expect it of you.
Mignon McLaughlin
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
A car is useless in New York essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
Mignon McLaughlin
What you can't get out of get into wholeheartedly.
Mignon McLaughlin
The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.
Mignon McLaughlin
Only where children gatheris there any real chance of fun.
Mignon McLaughlin
Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.
Mignon McLaughlin
We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.
Mignon McLaughlin
A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.
Mignon McLaughlin
The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.
Mignon McLaughlin
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Mignon McLaughlin
Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.
Mignon McLaughlin
Most of us would rather risk a catastrophe than read the instructions.
Mignon McLaughlin
Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.
Mignon McLaughlin
It’s easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child—at least till you try to get him to do something.
Mignon McLaughlin
Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.
Mignon McLaughlin
Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.
Mignon McLaughlin
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
Mignon McLaughlin
An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.
Mignon McLaughlin
There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.
Mignon McLaughlin
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times -- always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin