Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

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.

It's easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child - at least till you try to get him to do something.

Cash is the one gift everyone despises and no one turns down.

When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say.

A woman will do anything to keep a pretty figure, but hardly anything to get one.

The next voice you hear will undoubtedly be your own.

Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.

People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.

Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.

So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn't, He is behaving like God.

If I knew why I worried so much, I wouldn't worry.

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.

Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.

Not for nothing does the neurotic suffer - but not for anything very much, either.

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.

It's wonderful to watch pretty women with character grow beautiful.

Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us.

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

Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.

It’s easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child—at least till you try to get him to do something.

Most of us would rather risk a catastrophe than read the instructions.

Only where children gatheris there any real chance of fun.

What you can't get out of get into wholeheartedly.

A car is useless in New York essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

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

If you are brave too often people will come to expect it of you.

It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them and important to friendship that we are not.

It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them and important to our friendship that we are not.

We'd all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

For the happiest life days should be rigorously planned nights left open to chance.

In the arithmetic of love one plus one equals everything and two minus one equals nothing.

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

Learning too soon our limitations we never learn our powers.

Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

We'd all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show.

Even cowards can endure hardship only the brave can endure suspense.

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.