Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

• There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

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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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• We would all like a reputation for generosity and we’d all like to buy it cheap.

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• Most sermons sound to me like commercials – but I can’t make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.

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• The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

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• Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.

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• We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

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• What you can’t get out of, get into wholeheartedly.

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• Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.

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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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  In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything and two minus one equals nothing.

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• 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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• When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

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• What you can’t get out of, get into wholeheartedly.

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• We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

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• There are a handful of people whom money won’t spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.

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• The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

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• No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

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• No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.

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• Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

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Mignon McLaughlin (51)

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

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