The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.
– Mignon McLaughlin
Men who don’t like girls with brains don’t like girls.
– Mignon McLaughlin
The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
– Mignon McLaughlin
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
– Mignon McLaughlin
Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.
– Mignon McLaughlin
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
Don’t be yourself. Be someone a little nicer.
– Mignon McLaughlin
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
– Mignon McLaughlin
Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren’t even there before.
– Mignon McLaughlin
Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.
-Mignon McLaughlin
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
– Mignon McLaughlin
My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I’m ashamed of what I think of doctors in general.
– Mignon McLaughlin
Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.
– Mignon McLaughlin
A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.
– Mignon McLaughlin
It’s innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn’t.
– Mignon McLaughlin
If you hate your lot but wouldn’t trade it, it’s not your lot you hate.
– Mignon McLaughlin
The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.
– Mignon McLaughlin
The time to begin most things is ten years ago.
– Mignon McLaughlin
Courage can’t see around corners, but goes around them anyway.
– Mignon McLaughlin
Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.
– Mignon McLaughlin
Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.
– Mignon McLaughlin
We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
– Mignon McLaughlin
Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can’t.
– Mignon McLaughlin
Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.
– Mignon McLaughlin
Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and difficult as that.
– Mignon McLaughlin
Once you become self- conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.
– Mignon McLaughlin
Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers. -Mignon McLaughlin
Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.
– Mignon McLaughlin
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
– Mignon McLaughlin
Most of us can easily do two things at once; what’s all but impossible is to do one thing at once.
– Mignon McLaughlin
How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him.
– Mignon McLaughlin
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you’ll see why.
– Mignon McLaughlin
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
Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.
– Mignon McLaughlin
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
The hardest learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
– Mignon McLaughlin
Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.
– Mignon McLaughlin
We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.
– Mignon McLaughlin
If you have to do it every day, for God’s sake learn to do it well.
– Mignon McLaughlin
I often pray, though I’m not really sure Anyone’s listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He’s literary.
– Mignon McLaughlin
All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.
– Mignon McLaughlin