Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God.
Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have.
When a man falls in love, he wants to go to bed. When a woman falls in love, she wants to talk about it.
Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.
We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.
I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine.
Even in the same family, one child will always instinctively know when to ask for things, and another won't.
When the pressures really mount, the neurotic must choose: Shall he have a good cry, or set fire to his neighbor's house?
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.
Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.
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.
If only we could be old and sick while we're still young and healthy enough to put up with it!
It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.
When first we fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.
It must infuriate our children to see us always so much more forbearing with everybody else's.
If you jot down every silly thought that pops into your mind, you will soon find out everything you most seriously believe.
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.
If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.
Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once.
An artist usually has no friends except other artists, and usually they do not like his work.
It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.
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.
God is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects.
The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.
A productive marriage requires falling in enjoy numerous occasions, usually with the identical man or woman.
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.
There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.
