Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

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

Marriage, Love, Successful

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

Change, Fear, Unhappy

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

Humor, Sense, Against

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

Life, Chance, Days

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

Age, True, Woman

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

Friendship, Important, Friends

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

Powerful, Become, Universe

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

Heart, Rules, Head

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

Love, Great, Become

Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.
Mignon McLaughlin

Love, Single, Saying

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

Marriage, Made, Why

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

Love, Nothing, Everything

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Mignon McLaughlin

Society, Living, Dead

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
Mignon McLaughlin

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
Mignon McLaughlin

Age, After, Moment

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

Brave, Hardship, Cowards

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

Love, Everyone, Loved

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

Sex, Woman, Average

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
Mignon McLaughlin

Become, Used, Paid

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.
Mignon McLaughlin

Love, Success, Enough

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

Reputation, Generosity, Cheap

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

Learning, Learn, Soon

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

Good, Car, Same

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

Courage, Around, Goes

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.
Mignon McLaughlin

Love, Afraid, Show

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: June 6, 1913

Died: December 20, 1983

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