1915?-, American Author, Editor
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin – [Marriage]
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 – [Price]
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Mignon McLaughlin – [Conformity]
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
Mignon McLaughlin – [Planning]
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 – [Friends and Friendship]
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Mignon McLaughlin – [Innocence]
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
Mignon McLaughlin – [Change]
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
Mignon McLaughlin – [Listening]
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show.
Mignon McLaughlin – [Strength]
We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
Mignon McLaughlin – [Reputation]
What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.
Mignon McLaughlin – [Effort]