Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for.

When we first fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.

No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.

Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are.

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

Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't.

If everyone gave a tenth of his worldly goods to the person he most admired, the rich would just get richer.

There's little enough to be said for nationalism, so let's say it and have done.

We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.

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

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.

Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.

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

When children are bored, it reflects on us all.

Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.