Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

• …society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People
• 

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

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Topics in Inspirational, Love, Success

  Tags in Marriage, Times
• 

  A successful marriage requires falling in love many time, always with the same person.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Topics in Inspirational, Love

  Tags in Marriage, Falling
• 

  Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Fun, Gather

• Courage can’t see around corners but goes around them anyway.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Courage

• The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Moment, Courage

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Little

• 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

  Topics in Youth

  Tags in Aware, Our, Always, Specific, Year, After, Gone, Later, Moment, Much, Become, Some, Know

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Married

• No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you’ll see why.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Listen

• It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn’t.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Man

• 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

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Our, Frank, Unreservedly, Friends, Believe, Them, Important

• If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Brave

• We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Topics in Trust

  Tags in Brave

• Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we’re damned if we’re going to show.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Weakness

• It’s the most unhappy people who most fear change.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Unhappy

• Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Feeling

• The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humility, Proud

• Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Trouble

• A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Trouble

Mignon McLaughlin (51)

Birth:	6th June, 1913
Death:	20th December, 1983
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Journalist

Related Authors

• Mary Pettibone Poole
• E. T. A. Hoffmann
• Robert Holden
• Charlaine Harris
• Annie Dillard
• Paul Stamets
• T. Afsin Ilgar
• Sebastian Junger
• Alan Clark
• Tom Flynn

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 21st December

Births

• 1947 - Zoe Lofgren
• 1815 - Thomas Couture
• 1966 - Kiefer Sutherland
• 1948 - Tom Keith
• 1948 - Samuel L. Jackson

Deaths

• 1935 - Kurt Tucholsky
• 1992 - Stella Adler
• 1889 - Joseph Barber Lightfoot
• 2001 - David Swift
• 1958 - Lion Feuchtwanger