Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

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

Wed all like a reputation for generosity and wed all like to buy it cheap.

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

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

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

Learning too soon our limitations we never learn our powers.

Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Wed all like a reputation for generosity and wed all like to buy it cheap.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Courage cant see around corners but goes around them anyway.

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

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, youd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.