Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

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.

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You Marriage Hell Why Couple Divorce List Married Reasons Another Any Got Lot Made

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

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People Money Spoil Count Ourselves Among Handful Whom Them

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

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Long Children Parents Us Stopped Become Before Being Most

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

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Society Dead Living Troublemakers Honors

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

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Age Woman True Like Armenian Buyer Dealer Final Price Rug Telling Her His

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

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Life Chance Open Days Left Happiest Nights Planned Should

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

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Society Live Dead Every Honors Troublemakers

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

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You See Try Why Anyone Else Listens Anyone Else No-One Really While

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

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Learning Never Our Learn Soon Limitations Powers Too

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

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Strength Weakness Our Show Composed Going Often

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

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Love Nothing Everything Two Arithmetic Equals Minus Plus

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

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Brave Born Us Most Greedy Remain Trusting

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

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Humor Sense Of Humor Sense Against Defense Major Minor Troubles

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

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Today Feel Yesterday Doing Wish Done Few Had Like Many Things

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

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Strength Brave Only Hardship Endure Cowards Suspense Even

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.

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Sin Being Saved Many Inept

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

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Heart Never Partner Crime Becomes Rules Head Just

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

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Good Car New Useless Essential Everywhere Good Manners Manners New York York Else Same

If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.

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You People Brave Will Expect Come Often Too

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

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God Suffering Just Forgetting Sign Yearn Had Some

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

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You Out Get Wholeheartedly

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

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Reputation Like Generosity Cheap Buy Would

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

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Courage See Them Anyway Corners Goes Around

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

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Courage You Moment Next Only Gets Matters Kind

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

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You Want Price Become Paid Get Used

Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.

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You Will Proud Child Least Likely Make Most

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

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Love Way Loved Everyone Wants Anyone Ever No-One

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

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Man Will Humility Proud Proud Man He Learn

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.

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Man Woman Sex Average Average Man Obsessed

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.

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About Anxious Knew

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

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Hope Feeling Permanent

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

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Reputation Like Generosity Cheap Buy

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

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Love Great City Travel New Affair Explorers Love Affair New Love Become Days Few First Our

It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.

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Man Words Wish Down Lawyers Paper Thousands Thousands Of Years Took He His Put Still Years

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

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Love Fear People Animals Afraid Lavish Return Worse Might Show

No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.

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Matter Will Half How Brilliantly Moved Stated Unless Idea Ourselves Really Thought

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.

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Love Success Love Is Youth Achieve Success Is Could Enough Would

Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.

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Love Doors Before Even Were Opens Windows

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

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Love Romantic Love Is Name Silent Single Saying

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