American - Journalist | June 6, 1913 - December 20, 1983
It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.
Mignon McLaughlin
WordsManWishLawyersDownYears
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
TodayFeelWishDoingYesterdayFew
Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
SocietyLivingDeadTroublemakers
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
FriendshipBelieveFriendsImportant
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
AgeWomanPriceTrueFinalHer
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.
LoveFearPeopleAnimalsAfraid
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
AgeMomentYouthKnowBecomeAlways
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
LiveSocietyDeadTroublemakers
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
YouWhyTrySeeListensReally
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
YouPriceWantBecomeUsedPaid
If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.
PeopleBraveYouWillExpectCome
Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.
CourageSeeAroundGoesAnywayThem
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