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Mignon McLaughlin

22 quotes

Mignon McLaughlin, an American journalist, is widely remembered for insights that continue to resonate with readers everywhere. Their thinking spans from Society to Marriage, revealing a mind that refused to stay in one lane. Our collection holds 24 quotes from Mignon McLaughlin, each offering a different angle on Society, Marriage, Love, God, and Courage. To get a sense of their style, try: "It's the most unhappy people who most fear change."

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Courage

All Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Money

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Courage

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Humor

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Life

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Great

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Love

“Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

Society

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Courage

“A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

Car

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

God

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Strength

“It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

Change

“Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

Hope

“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

Society

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Love

“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.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

Success

“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

Marriage

“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

Age

“Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

God

“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

Friendship