Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

— Mignon McLaughlin

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

— Mignon McLaughlin

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

— 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.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

— Mignon McLaughlin

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

— Mignon McLaughlin

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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.

— Mignon McLaughlin