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Courage can’t see around corners but goes around them anyway
Mignon McLaughlin was an American journalist and author, known for her witty quips and aphorisms. She is best known for her two books, The Neurotic's Notebook and The Second Neurotic's Notebook.
Journalist | American
Born: 1913-06-06 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Died: December 20, 1983 in New York, USA
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
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
Mignon McLaughlin
A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
Mignon McLaughlin
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
Mignon McLaughlin
Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.
Mignon McLaughlin
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Mignon McLaughlin
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
Mignon McLaughlin
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
Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.
Mignon McLaughlin
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
Mignon McLaughlin
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
Mignon McLaughlin
Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
Mignon McLaughlin
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
Mignon McLaughlin
Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
Mignon McLaughlin
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
Mignon McLaughlin
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
Mignon McLaughlin
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
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
There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.
Mignon McLaughlin
Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Mignon McLaughlin
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Mignon McLaughlin
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.
Mignon McLaughlin
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