Top 381 Quotes & Sayings by Mignon McLaughlin - Page 2
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Last updated on September 18, 2024.
The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.
We often pray to be better, when in truth we only want to feel better.
The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried.
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.
Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first.
When a man falls in love, he wants to go to bed. When a woman falls in love, she wants to talk about it.
Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.
Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.
In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner.
I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice.
Don't ask others to forgive in you a sin they're dying to commit themselves.
Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.
Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God.
Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite.
The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius.
It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.
True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.
Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.
A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough.
Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar.
It is always safe to tell people that they're looking wonderful.
Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.
Every creature stalks some other, catches it, and is caught.
Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.
The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.
The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.
If you can tell anyone about it, it's not the worst thing you ever did.
Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.
Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.
One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.
Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.
The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.
We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture.
Fields can lie fallow but we can't; we have less time.
Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between.
Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have.
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.
Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.
Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.
Pull yourself together' is seldom said to anyone who can.
Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.
Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.
Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.
With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins.
Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.
The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.
Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway.
We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.
There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved.
The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.
Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.
You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.
When first we fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.
I know which side my bread is buttered on: the side which falls on the carpet.
Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity.
We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"
It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.
Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed.
Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.
We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.
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