Quote

We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence.

Mignon McLaughlin

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mignon McLaughlin
Age: 70 †
Born: 1913
Born: June 6
Died: 1983
Died: December 20
Journalist
Writer
the United States of America
Wake
Silence
Night

More quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

Image
If the second marriage really succeeds, the first one didn't really fail.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Every creature stalks some other, catches it, and is caught.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Every group feels strong once it has found a scapegoat.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
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.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
No one ever loved anyone the way that person wanted to be loved.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
It's awesome to realize that if your greatest potential talent is for riding a bicycle upside down on a high wire, you will somehow discover it.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Revenge leads to an empty fullness, like eating dirt.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk.
Mignon McLaughlin