Quotes by McLaughlin, Mignon




Mignon McLaughlin was an American journalist and author who lived from 1913 to 1983..

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

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"It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not."

McLaughlin, Mignon on friends and friendship
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"It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't."

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"No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why."

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

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

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"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."

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

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

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"It's the most unhappy people who most fear change."

McLaughlin, Mignon on change
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"Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."

McLaughlin, Mignon on conformity
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