Mignon McLaughlin

Every creature stalks some other, catches it, and is caught.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

— Mignon McLaughlin

God doesn't measure His bounty, but oh how we do!

— Mignon McLaughlin

Fields can lie fallow but we can't; we have less time.

— Mignon McLaughlin

We can never at any time absorb more love than we're ready for.

— Mignon McLaughlin

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions…

— Mignon McLaughlin

Neurotics have plenty of non-neurotic friends, but not for long.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on…

— Mignon McLaughlin

Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk.

— Mignon McLaughlin

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

— Mignon McLaughlin

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible that both are right.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.

— Mignon McLaughlin

If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they'll stop making it tomorrow; if it's all three, they stopped making it…

— Mignon McLaughlin

All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.

— Mignon McLaughlin

No matter how many Christmas presents you give your child, there's always that terrible moment when he's opened the very last one.…

— Mignon McLaughlin

The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself…

— Mignon McLaughlin

Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have…

— Mignon McLaughlin

I tell you this, and I tell you plain: What you have done, you will do again; You will bite your tongue,…

— Mignon McLaughlin

There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have…

— Mignon McLaughlin

Every now and then you run across radiantly attractive people and you're delighted to find they adore you, till you realize that…

— Mignon McLaughlin

A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over…

— Mignon McLaughlin

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd…

— Mignon McLaughlin

Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a…

— Mignon McLaughlin

The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone — until they do.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The next voice you hear will undoubtedly be your own.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Despair is anger with no place to go.

— Mignon McLaughlin

“Even cowards can endure hardship; only he brave can endure suspense”

— Mignon McLaughlin

Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar.

— Mignon McLaughlin

If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.

— Mignon McLaughlin

We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.

— Mignon McLaughlin

What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.

— Mignon McLaughlin

It is always safe to tell people that they're looking wonderful.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Women go to beauty parlors for the unmussed look men hate.

— Mignon McLaughlin

At night, neurotics may toil not, but oh how they spin!

— Mignon McLaughlin

Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both.

— Mignon McLaughlin