Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone but, years after, we know it was much later.

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

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

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

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

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