I've been hiding from God, and I'm appalled to find how easy it is. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
A woman will do anything to keep a pretty figure, but hardly anything to get one. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
It's terrifying to see someone inside of whom a vital spring seems to have been broken. It's particularly terrifying to see him… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they? — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
When "Why not do it?" barely outweighs "Why do it?" — don't do it. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Every creatures stalks some other, and catches it, and is caught. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
Even in the same family, one child will always instinctively know when to ask for things, and another won't. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
