Mignon McLaughlin Famous Quotes
"The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it."
"We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair."
"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."
"We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it or worse, they might."
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
"Immature love says, 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says, 'I need you because I love you.'"
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
"I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not."
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
"In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing."
What you can't get out of... Get into wholeheartedly.
"The head never rules the heart, but just becomes it's partner in crime."
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
"There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today."
"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."
"If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious."
"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."
"It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't."
"No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why."
Mignon McLaughlin Quotations
"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."
James Arthur Baldwin
"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."
George Bernard Shaw
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
B F Skinner
The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
John Burroughs
"Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself."
Joel Hawes
Books are hindrances to persisting stupidity.
Spanish Proverb
"This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand."
Aristophanes
"The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us."
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
I dwell in possibility...
Emily Dickinson
"If wrinkles must be written upon your brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old."
James Abram Garfield