Mignon McLaughlin

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. 

Mignon McLaughlin 

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. 

Mignon McLaughlin 

Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. 

Mignon McLaughlin 

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer. 

Mignon McLaughlin 

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners. 

Mignon McLaughlin 

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance. 

Mignon McLaughlin 

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent. 

Mignon McLaughlin 

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway. 

Mignon McLaughlin 

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense. 

Mignon McLaughlin 

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. 

Mignon McLaughlin