Mignon Mclaughlin quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

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

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

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