Top 381 Quotes & Sayings by Mignon McLaughlin - Page 3
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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
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.
Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors.
Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.
Every group feels strong once it has found a scapegoat.
If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well.
My religious position: I think that God could do a lot better, and I'm willing to give Him the chance.
Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.
The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.
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.
The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.
A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.
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.
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.
Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk.
People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way.
No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.
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.
We climb mountains because they are there, and worship God because He is not.
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.
Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men.
We cough because we can't help it, but others do it on purpose.
We semaphore from ship to ship, but they're sinking, too.
Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity, and always its result.
There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.
When "Why not do it?" barely outweighs "Why do it?" — don't do it.
Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.
In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.
The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.
Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.
Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.
The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.
Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter.
Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.
Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary.
We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.
I've been hiding from God, and I'm appalled to find how easy it is.
The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.
Many of us are equal to life's emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness.
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.
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.
Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.
Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.
Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.
Elegimos aquellos que nos gusta, con los que amamos, no tenemos voz en el asunto.
Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.
Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.
If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else.
Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money.
A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.
Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.
I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine.
We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter.
Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.
A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.
Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it.
What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures.
God and the devil lose to a common enemy: inertia.
We're seldom drawn to a character we admire; only to a personality we like.
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