"It is important to our friends to believe……" — 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."
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311 Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin
Mignon McLaughlin has 311 quotes on this site.
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The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones.
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There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt.
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Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first.
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Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it,…
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Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.
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What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.
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If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject.
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Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.
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The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.
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It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?
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As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.
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In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.
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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief…
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
— Margaret Atwood
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were…
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of…
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel…
— Saint Augustine
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,…
— Jane Austen
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Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what…
— Richard Bach
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the…
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