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 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
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's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
– Mignon McLaughlin
Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
– Mignon McLaughlin
Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.
– Mignon McLaughlin
Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.
– Mignon McLaughlin
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
– Mignon McLaughlin
Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.
– Mignon McLaughlin
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
– Mignon McLaughlin
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.
– Mignon McLaughlin
The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
– Mignon McLaughlin
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
– 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
We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
– Mignon McLaughlin
We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
– Mignon McLaughlin
What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.
– Mignon McLaughlin
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
– Mignon McLaughlin
If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.
– Mignon McLaughlin
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
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
– Mignon McLaughlin
There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.
– Mignon McLaughlin
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
– Mignon McLaughlin
Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
– Mignon McLaughlin
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.