Love Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin · Page 2

God doesn't measure His bounty, but oh how we do!

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.

— 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

At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.

— 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

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way.

— Mignon McLaughlin

A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.

— Mignon McLaughlin

To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— 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

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures.

— Mignon McLaughlin

A woman will do anything to keep a pretty figure, but hardly anything to get one.

— 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

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

— 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

Whether or not you love television, you've got to admit that it certainly loves itself.

— Mignon McLaughlin