A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Love
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Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin
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Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
Education
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
Love
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
Life
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Wisdom
Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.
Love
Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.
Courage
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
Wisdom
If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.
Wisdom
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
Wisdom
We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
Wisdom
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
Friendship
Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.
Love
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
Courage
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Love
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.
Wisdom
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.
Love
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Courage
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
Wisdom
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
Wisdom
The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
Love
We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
Courage
Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Life
A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
Wisdom
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