A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Love, Marriage, Always, Person
We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Reputation, Like, Buy, Generosity
We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Like, Buy, Would, Generosity
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
Want, Answered, Considered, Asked
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Society, Dead, Troublemakers, Honors
Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Society, Dead, Troublemakers, Honors
What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.
- Mignon McLaughlin
You, Out, Get, Wholeheartedly
Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Love, Doors, Even, Opens
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Love, Travel, New, Explorers
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Age, Woman, Telling, Armenian
Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Learn, Never, Too, Powers
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Ignorance, Innocence, Us, Charms
It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Lawyers, Still, Took, Thousands Of Years
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Love, Minus, Equals, Arithmetic
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Life, Chance, Left, Open
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.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Love, Success Is, Would, Love Is
Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Love, Romantic, Single, Love Is
A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
- Mignon McLaughlin
New York, New, Same, Manners
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
Marriage, Couple, Reasons, Divorce
Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Product, Like, Sponsor, Sermons
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
Friendship, Important, Frank, Unreservedly
Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Strength, Hardship, Even, Brave
We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Born, Most, Remain, Brave
If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Will, Expect, Too, Brave
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
Explain, Set, Dozens, Each Day
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Love, Fear, Lavish, Return
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Strength, Weakness, Going, Composed
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Want, Price, Get, Paid
Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.
- Mignon McLaughlin
See, Goes, Corners, Anyway
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
Thought, Will, Half, Brilliantly
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Humor, Sense Of Humor, Major, Troubles
The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Young, Pretty, About, Generally
The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Rules, Never, Head, Partner
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Courage, Matters, Next, Gets
There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Money, Handful, Among, Whom
The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Proud, Learn, Will, Proud Man
Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Hope, Feeling, Permanent
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Age, Some, Always, Gone
Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Saved, Being, Many, Sin
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Suffering, Some, Forgetting, Yearn
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
- Mignon McLaughlin
See, Anyone, Else, Listens
Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Woman, Average, Obsessed, Sex
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Love, Loved, Ever, Wants
If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Knew, About, Anxious
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Doing, Feel, Like, Wish
Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Proud, Will, Most, Likely
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Change, People, Most, Unhappy
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Children, Before, Most, Stopped
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