"Most of our diversions do not so much……" — Mignon McLaughlin
"Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it."
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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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More Accustom Quotes
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Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
— Teresa of Avila
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
— John Berger
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Accustom yourself to tireless activity.
— Alexander Suvorov
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Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you…
— Francois Fenelon
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Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.
— Samuel Johnson
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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort…
— Alexander Pope
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We should think more about it, and accustom ourselves to the thought of death. We can't allow the fear of…
— Dmitri Shostakovich
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I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well
— Oscar Wilde
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Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the…
— Marcus Aurelius
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We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to…
— Blaise Pascal
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Why do men learn through pain and suffering, and not through pleasure and happiness? Very simply, because pleasure and happiness…
— Seraphim Rose
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