Top 350 Mignon McLaughlin Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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2. “Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

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3. “Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren’t even there before.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

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4. “Don’t be yourself. Be someone a little nicer.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

7. “Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

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8. “What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

9. “Things are never so bad that they can’t get worse. But they’re sometimes so bad they can’t get better.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

10. “The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

13. “Don’t fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

14. “Every now and then you run across radiantly attractive people and you’re delighted to find they adore you, till you realize that they adore just about everybody- and that’s what’s made them radiantly attractive.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

15. “Pessimism is like optimism, only less dangerous.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

16. “True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

17. “Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

18. “Every group feels strong once it has found a scapegoat.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

19. “Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

20. “Always live up to your standards – by lowering them, if necessary.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

22. “No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

23. “The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

24. “God and the devil lose to a common enemy: inertia.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

26. “Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions...”

— Mignon McLaughlin

27. “Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

28. “Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

29. “The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive – perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

30. “I tell you this, and I tell you plain: What you have done, you will do again; You will bite your tongue, careful or not, Upon the already-bitten spot.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

31. “Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

32. “You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

33. “Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

35. “Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

36. “It’s impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

37. “Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

38. “Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It’s the sin of my middle age, too.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

39. “The three horrors of modern life – talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

40. “When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

41. “Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

42. “We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

43. “Altruism is a hard master, but so is opportunism.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

44. “Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

46. “Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

48. “Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

49. “When hope is hungry, everything feeds it.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

50. “My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I’m ashamed of what I think of doctors in general.”

— Mignon McLaughlin