Inspirational Quotations by 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.
- Every society honors its live conformists
and its dead troublemakers.
- In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.
- We are like people with short-term leases on
summer cottages; we can never seem to
make our provisions come out even with our stay.
- What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.
- Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.
- Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.
- We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
- Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.
- A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.