Love Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary.

— Mignon McLaughlin

We can never at any time absorb more love than we're ready for.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Despair is anger with no place to go.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The hardest learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God…

— Mignon McLaughlin

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would…

— Mignon McLaughlin

The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.

— Mignon McLaughlin

After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage.

— Mignon McLaughlin

One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Anywhere you go liking everyone, everyone will be likeable.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.

— Mignon McLaughlin

So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn't, He is behaving like God.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.

— Mignon McLaughlin

When hope is hungry, everything feeds it

— Mignon McLaughlin

If I knew why I worried so much, I wouldn't worry.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.

— Mignon McLaughlin

If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

We semaphore from ship to ship, but they're sinking, too.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.

— Mignon McLaughlin

When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say.

— Mignon McLaughlin

When we discuss those we love with those who do not love them, the end of love is near.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway.

— Mignon McLaughlin