Explore the most impactful and insightful quotes and sayings by Mignon Mclaughlin, and enrich your perspective with the wisdom. Share these inspiring Mignon Mclaughlin quotes pictures with your friends on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, completely free. Here are the top 374 Mignon Mclaughlin quotes for you to read and share.
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
It's wonderful to watch a pretty woman with character grow beautiful. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible that both are right. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
One day you are an apprentice, and everybody's pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Every creatures stalks some other, and catches it, and is caught. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Women who feel naked without their lipstick are well over thirty. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he's covered with warts and is only after her money. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Anything you do from the heart enriches you, but sometimes not till years later. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Always live up to your standards - by lowering them, if necessary. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they'll stop making it tomorrow; if it's all three, they stopped making it yesterday. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
It must infuriate our children to see us always so much more forbearing with everybody else's. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
People are like birds: on the wing, all beautiful; up close, all beady little eyes. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
A bore: one who knows as well as you do what he is going to say next. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny" -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Nobody knows the trouble we've seen-but we keep trying to tell them. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
There's no way to repay a mother's love, or lack of it. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Neurotic quarrels always have the same theme-song: Hate me and get it over with. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Women are good listeners, but it's a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there's something specific you want him to do. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
When "Why not do it?" barely outweighs "Why do it?" - don't do it. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily changing the position. Change "vertigo" to "anxiety," and you've summed up the neurotic's plight. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
We semaphore from ship to ship, but they're sinking, too. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
No woman wants to see herself too clearly. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Healthy parakeets have the nervous energy of tennis players. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
We can never at any time absorb more love than we're ready for. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Fields can lie fallow but we can't; we have less time. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
To talk easily with people, you must firmly believe that either you or they are interesting. And even then it's not easy. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
A woman will do anything to keep a pretty figure, but hardly anything to get one. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
We often pray to be better, when in truth we only want to feel better. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
No one ever loved anyone the way that person wanted to be loved. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
I tell you this, and I tell you plain
What you have done, you will do again
You will bite your tongue, careful or not
Upon the already-bitten spot -- Mignon Mclaughlin
You never realize how tacky your furniture is till you try to give it to the Salvation Army and they won't take it. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
God is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
If the second marriage really succeeds, the first one didn't really fail. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The time to begin most things is ten years ago. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Only where children gather
is there any real chance of fun. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
There are always a few people you do a lot for, and a few who do a lot for you, but they're not the same people. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
When a man falls in love, he wants to go to bed. When a woman falls in love, she wants to talk about it. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they? -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Pull yourself together' is seldom said to anyone who can. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Not for nothing does the neurotic suffer - but not for anything very much, either. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
When first we fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
In church, sacred music would make believers of us all - but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
A new wound makes all the old ones ache again. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live? -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
An artist usually has no friends except other artists, and usually they do not like his work. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Age is a slowing down of everything except fear. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Things are never so bad that they can't get worse. But they're sometimes so bad they can't get better. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
My thoughts, I guess, are bitter: who but the bitter have thoughts? -- Mignon Mclaughlin
When we discuss those we love with those who do not love them, the end of love is near. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions ... -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Forget about calories - everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
When the pressures really mount, the neurotic must choose: Shall he have a good cry, or set fire to his neighbor's house? -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Don't ask others to forgive in you a sin they're dying to commit themselves. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Altruism is a hard master, but so is opportunism. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he loves. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
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
People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times
always with the same person. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Good-looking girls break hearts, and goodhearted girls mend them. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Learn a little of anything, and you're ready to proselytize. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
If it came true, it wasn't much of a dream. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The hardest learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone - until they do. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Every now and then you run across radiantly attractive people and you're delighted to find they adore you, till you realize that they adore just about everybody- and that's what's made them radiantly attractive. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
I know which side my bread is buttered on: the side which falls on the carpet. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
We're seldom drawn to a character we admire; only to a personality we like. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
It's easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child - at least till you try to get him to do something. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The trouble with women is men; the trouble with men, men. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Love is often gentle, desire always a rage. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Despair is anger with no place to go. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The neurotic would like to trust his analyst - if only because he's paying him so much money. But he can't - because if the analyst really cared, he'd be doing it for nothing. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
A good executive is one who makes people contentedly settle for less than they meant to get, in return for more than they meant to give. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
It's terrifying to see someone inside of whom a vital spring seems to have been broken. It's particularly terrifying to see him in your mirror. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The way the neurotic sees it: bars on his door mean that he's locked in; bars on your door mean that he's locked out. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Cash is the one gift everyone despises and no one turns down. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
After he has had his tantrum, the neurotic expects those around him to feel friendly and relaxed; after all, he does. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
God and the devil lose to a common enemy: inertia. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
People keep telling us about their love affairs, when what we really want to know is how much money they make and how they manage on it. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
No matter how many Christmas presents you give your child, there's always that terrible moment when he's opened the very last one. That's when he expects you to say, 'Oh yes, I almost forgot,' and take him out and show him the pony. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The neurotic doesn't know how to cope with his emotional bills; some he keeps paying over and over, others he never pays at all. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The first two days of a vacation are endless; then it flies. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
My religious position: I think that God could do a lot better, and I'm willing to give Him the chance. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
If I knew why I worried so much, I wouldn't worry. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
When their children fail to charm others, few parents can stay neutral. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
When hope is hungry, everything feeds it -- Mignon Mclaughlin
If you jot down every silly thought that pops into your mind, you will soon find out everything you most seriously believe. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Others follow patterns; we alone are unpredictable. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I'm ashamed of what I think of doctors in general. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Few of us write great novels; all of us live them. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
At night, neurotics may toil not, but oh how they spin! -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel and cry. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
I wish I'd said it first, and I don't even know who did: The only problems that money can solve are money problems. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
A woman's mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Whether or not you love television, you've got to admit that it certainly loves itself. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Neurotics make poor patriots; if you're ashamed of something as big as yourself, it's hard to be proud of something as small as your country. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Money is much more exciting than anything it buys. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Anywhere you go liking everyone, everyone will be likeable. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
I've been hiding from God, and I'm appalled to find how easy it is. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Even in the same family, one child will always instinctively know when to ask for things, and another won't. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Most of us would rather risk a catastrophe than read the instructions. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Don't be yourself. Be someone a little nicer. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn't, He is behaving like God. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe in the play. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The neurotic has perfect vision in one eye, but he cannot remember which. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Men gossip less than women, but mean it. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
If only we could be old and sick while we're still young and healthy enough to put up with it! -- Mignon Mclaughlin
We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Nobody ever loved anybody like everybody wants to be loved. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
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
We climb mountains because they are there, and worship God because He is not. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The fault we admit to is seldom the fault we have, but it has a certain relationship to it, a somewhat similar shape, like that of a sleeve to an arm. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Many of us are equal to life's emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it. -- 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
Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Even cowards can endure hardship; only he brave can endure suspense -- Mignon Mclaughlin
We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Mama does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Dada first. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there's no such thing as exactly enough.. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Goods are displayed by thousands of shopkeepers with a sense of beauty that finds no other outlet. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Our strenght is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Women go to beauty parlors for the unmussed look men hate. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
It is always safe to tell people that they're looking wonderful. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Every group feels strong once it has found a scapegoat. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Courage doesn't know what's around the corner, but goes around it anyway. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The young do not need God, and the old cannot find Him. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Anything you lose automatically doubles in value. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The next voice you hear will undoubtedly be your own. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
God doesn't measure His bounty, but oh how we do! -- Mignon Mclaughlin
If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
We cough because we can't help it, but others do it on purpose. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Neurotics have plenty of non-neurotic friends, but not for long. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Don't look for God where He is needed most; if you didn't bring Him there, He isn't there. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
A productive marriage requires falling in enjoy numerous occasions, usually with the identical man or woman. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity, and always its result. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
If your husband expects you to laugh, do so; if he expects you to cry, don't; if you don't know what he expects, what are you doing married? -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The plague of government is senile delinquency. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
If you can tell anyone about it, it's not the worst thing you ever did. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
Revenge leads to an empty fullness, like eating dirt. -- Mignon Mclaughlin