Top 381 Quotes & Sayings by Mignon McLaughlin
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Last updated on September 15, 2024.
Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.
Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.
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.
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.
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.
The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.
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 would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.
We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.
Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.
No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
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.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.
It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.
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.
Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.
The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.
Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.
A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.
With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.
We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.
The time to begin most things is ten years ago.
The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.
Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer.
When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.
Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.
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