Famous Quotes

Quotes by Mignon Mclaughlin

• A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
• A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
• A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
• A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
• Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.
• Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
• For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
• Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
• 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.
• It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
• It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
• Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
• Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.
• No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
• Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.
• Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
• The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
• There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.
• There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone but, years after, we know it was much later.
• We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
• When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
• 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.