All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men. — 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
Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible that both are right. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
A productive marriage requires falling in enjoy numerous occasions, usually with the identical man or woman. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Women are good listeners, but it's a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there's something specific you want… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt,… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports,… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either. — 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
With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
When a man falls in love, he wants to go to bed. When a woman falls in love, she wants to talk… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on. — 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
