Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.
— Mignon McLaughlin
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
— Mignon McLaughlin
If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.
— 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
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
— Mignon McLaughlin
For the happiest life, days should he rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
— Mignon McLaughlin
The only kind of courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one minute to the next.
— Mignon McLaughlin
What you can't get out of ... Get into wholeheartedly.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.
— Mignon McLaughlin
The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
— Mignon McLaughlin
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
— Mignon McLaughlin