Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

1915?-, American Author, Editor
quotes
11
topics
11
Topic
“It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.”
Change
“What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.”
Effort
“It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.”
Innocence
“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”
Conformity
“We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.”
Reputation
“No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.”
Listening
“For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.”
Planning
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
Marriage
“Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show.”
Strength
“It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.”
Friends and Friendship
“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.”
Price