Mignon McLaughlin's Quotes

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

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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Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.

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

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Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.

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

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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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Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

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Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

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

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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.

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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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Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

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For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

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

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Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

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