Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
An American journalist and author.
(1913 - 1983)
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A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
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A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
[Humor]
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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
[Commitment]
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A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
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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.
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Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.
[Courage]
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Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.
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Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
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For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
[Happiness]
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Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
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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.
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If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.
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If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.
[Courage]
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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.
[Marriage]
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In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
[Life]
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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
[Friendship]
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It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.
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It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to our friendship that we are not.
[Friendship]
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It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
[Change]
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