Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

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

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

It’s innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn’t.

The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.

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

The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.

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

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one minute to the next.

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

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.