Mignon McLaughlin

• "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 car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.“
• "It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.“
• "Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.“
• "The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.“
• "It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.“
• "It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.“
• "Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.“
• "When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.“
• "We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.“
• "Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.“
• "A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.“
• "Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.“
• "For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.“
• "No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.“
• "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.“
• "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.“
• "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.“
• "There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.“
• "Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.“
• "Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.“
• "Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.“
• "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.“

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