Mignon McLaughlin Quotes - Page 2
+1A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1Luck when your burst of energy doesn’t run afoul of someone else’s.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1It’s innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn’t.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1Hate leaves ugly scars; love leaves beautiful ones.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1We have to call it “freedom”: who’d want to die for “a lesser tyranny”?
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1Courage can’t see around corners, but goes around them anyway.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1Most of us can easily do two things at once; what’s all but impossible is to do one thing at once.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fiber called courage.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1Be glad that you’re greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren’t.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part, and does not believe in the play.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1Comfort, or revelation:God owes us one of these but surely not both.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1Every society honors its live conformists, and its dead troublemakers.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1We semaphore from ship to ship, but they’re sinking, too.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1Women are never landlocked: they’re always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1Fields can lie fallow, but we can’t; we have less time.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn’t either.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1God doesn’t measure His bounty, but oh how we do!
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1The time to begin most things is ten years ago.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday so few that we feel like doing today.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and difficult as that.
- Mignon McLaughlin
