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

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

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

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

Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
Mignon McLaughlin

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.
Mignon McLaughlin

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

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

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.
Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

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.
Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

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

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

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
Mignon McLaughlin

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
Mignon McLaughlin