Top 381 Quotes & Sayings by Mignon McLaughlin - Page 5
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Last updated on November 22, 2024.
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.
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.
Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't.
After he has had his tantrum, the neurotic expects those around him to feel friendly and relaxed; after all, he does.
It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.
Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls.
Women who feel naked without their lipstick are well over thirty.
Revenge leads to an empty fullness, like eating dirt.
Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children.
A productive marriage requires falling in enjoy numerous occasions, usually with the identical man or woman.
They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.
Things are never so bad that they can't get worse. But they're sometimes so bad they can't get better.
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.
Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both.
The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.
Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't.
Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.
As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can.
A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch.
Anywhere you go liking everyone, everyone will be likeable.
In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.
At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.
A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.
When the pressures really mount, the neurotic must choose: Shall he have a good cry, or set fire to his neighbor's house?
In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.
Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways.
There's no way to repay a mother's love, or lack of it.
The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic.
Good-looking girls break hearts, and goodhearted girls mend them.
After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage.
Women go to beauty parlors for the unmussed look men hate.
There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.
If only we could be old and sick while we're still young and healthy enough to put up with it!
The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport.
Forget about calories - everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter.
Even in the same family, one child will always instinctively know when to ask for things, and another won't.
Neurotics have plenty of non-neurotic friends, but not for long.
At night, neurotics may toil not, but oh how they spin!
When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor.
An artist usually has no friends except other artists, and usually they do not like his work.
Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.
Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.
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.
Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.
Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest!
The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself.
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?
Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once.
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.
When their children fail to charm others, few parents can stay neutral.
Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers.
Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.
If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.
Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.
The first two days of a vacation are endless; then it flies.
A woman's mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband.
God is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects.
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.
Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.
People are like birds: on the wing, all beautiful; up close, all beady little eyes.
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