"Nostalgia for what we have lost is more……" — Mignon McLaughlin
"Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had"
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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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