Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.

Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.

—Mignon McLaughlin

Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.

—Mignon McLaughlin

There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human beings like that.

—Mignon McLaughlin

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

—Mignon McLaughlin

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

—Mignon McLaughlin

When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.

—Helen Hunt Jackson

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something, we'd all love one another.

—Frank Zappa

I've always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many humiliating courting events.

—Leonard Cohen

The days are too short even for love; how can there ever be time for quarreling?

—Margaret Gatty