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Mignon McLaughlin

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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."

“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

All Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Car

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Hope

“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

“A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

Age

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Change

“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

“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

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Learning

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Society

“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

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Society

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Strength

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Love

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Great

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Life

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Humor

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

God

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Love

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Courage

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

God