Mignon McLaughlin

“We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.”

“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.”

“Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.”

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

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

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

“It’s easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child—at least till you try to get him to do something.”

“What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.”

“There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.”

“Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.”

“We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.”

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

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

“Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.”

“We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.”

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

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

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

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

“The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.”