Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
+26Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+24Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+16A successful marriage requires falling in love many times with the same person.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+10If you have to do it every day, for God’s sake learn to do it well.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+3You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched out pages.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+3Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+3The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+2There’s an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren’t even there before.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1Don’t be yourself be someone a little nicer.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1I’m glad I don’t have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and put them in my mouth.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life work.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it’s made you a mess, but you won’t die from it.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1Most sermons sound to me like commercials but I can’t make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1My religious position: I think that God could do a lot better, and I’m willing to give Him the chance.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1There 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.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1I often pray, though I’m not really sure Anyone’s listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He’s literary.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1For the happiest life, rigorously plan your days, leave your nights open to chance.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It’s possible that both are right.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he’s going to wind up wanting hasn’t even been born.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1There’s nothing wrong with most men’s egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can’t cure.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I’m ashamed of what I think of doctors in general.
- Mignon McLaughlin
