A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
- Mignon McLaughlin Quote

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

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 Quote

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.
- Mignon McLaughlin Quote

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
- Mignon McLaughlin Quote

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

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.
- Mignon McLaughlin Quote

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.
- Mignon McLaughlin Quote

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 Quote

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
- Mignon McLaughlin Quote

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 Quote

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
- Mignon McLaughlin Quote

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
- Mignon McLaughlin Quote

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

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
- Mignon McLaughlin Quote

Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.
- Mignon McLaughlin Quote

No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.
- Mignon McLaughlin Quote

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.
- Mignon McLaughlin Quote

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

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
- Mignon McLaughlin Quote

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
- Mignon McLaughlin Quote

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

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.
- Mignon McLaughlin Quote

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.
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There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
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We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
- Mignon McLaughlin Quote

We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
- Mignon McLaughlin Quote

We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
- Mignon McLaughlin Quote

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
- Mignon McLaughlin Quote

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