Mignon McLaughlin quotes

“If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

“If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

“We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

“The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

“We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

“Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

“It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

“What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

“When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

“I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

“It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

“Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

“Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

“No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

“The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

“There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.”

— Mignon McLaughlin