The best Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

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

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

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

Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.

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

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.

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

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shade when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes, you close your window. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we're gone.

If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one, because if you really loved the first one you wouldn't have fallen for the second.

"How do you spell 'love'?" - "You don't spell it... you feel it."

The Jedi are trained to let go. They're trained from birth. They're not supposed to form attachments. They can love people – in fact, they should love everybody. They should love their enemies; they should love the Sith. But they can't form attachments. So what all these movies are about is: greed. Greed is a source of pain and suffering for everybody.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

To make a bad day worse, spend it wishing for the impossible.

You see everyone wants everything, that's the way the world is. But I just might actually get it.

This is how it's done. When people are sittin' on shit that you want, you make 'em your enemy. Then you're justified in taking it.

It's not the having, it's the getting.

It's the way it works: Love plus time minus distance equals hate.

A happy marriage doesn't mean you have a perfect spouse or a perfect marriage. It simply means you've chosen to look beyond the imperfections in both.

Lucy, every marriage is a dance; complicated at times, lovely at times, most the time very uneventful. But with Mickey, there will be times when your dance will be on broken glass. There will be pain. And you will either flee that pain or hold tighter and dance through it to the next smooth place.

The heart can be tough to change, but the mind can be tough to persuade.

You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.

Already I can see the chain reaction. The chemical precursors that signal the onset of an emotion designed specifically to overwhelm logic and reason.

If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.

He who can make people laugh has to be taken seriously; all people with power know that.

If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.

...yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.

I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.

If you can't say somethin' nice, don't say nothin' at all.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Never memorize what you can look up in books.

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.

Children have got to be free to lead their own lives.

As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

If you want more sex, just ask for it.

Sheldon: "You do understand that our efforts here will in no way increase the odds of having sexual congress with this woman?"
Leonard: "Men do things for women without expecting sex."
Sheldon: "Those would be men who just had sex."

Don't do drugs, don't have unprotected sex, don't be violent... leave that to me.

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. What women like is to be a man's last romance.

There's nothing that stupid men fear more than intelligent women.

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.