"Age is a slowing down of everything except…" — Mignon McLaughlin

"Age is a slowing down of everything except fear."

— Mignon McLaughlin

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311 Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

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The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones.
There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt.
Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first.
Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it,…
Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.
What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.
If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject.
Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.
The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.
It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?
As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.
In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood

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