Mignon McLaughlin Quotes, Thoughts and Image

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

The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.

The trouble with women is men; the trouble with men, men.

The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.

Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.

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

The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.

When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.

Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.

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

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

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

Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.

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

The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.

If you can tell anyone about it, it's not the worst thing you ever did.

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's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.

Pull yourself together' is seldom said to anyone who can.

There are always a few people you do a lot for, and a few who do a lot for you, but they're not the same people.

Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.

Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer.

It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.

If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else.

Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.

We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

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

The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.

A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough.

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

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

You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.

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

Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.

Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.

Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.

Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.

With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.

True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

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

Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.

We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture.