A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Mignon McLaughlin
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
Mignon McLaughlin
If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn’t be so anxious.
Mignon McLaughlin
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
Mignon McLaughlin
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
Mignon McLaughlin
Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.
Mignon McLaughlin
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you will see why.
Mignon McLaughlin
The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.
Mignon McLaughlin
We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
Mignon McLaughlin