Mignon McLaughlin

Good-looking girls break hearts, and goodhearted girls mend them.

— Mignon McLaughlin

What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.

— Mignon McLaughlin

A sense of humour is a major defense against minor troubles.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Women who feel naked without their lipstick are well over thirty.

— Mignon McLaughlin

We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence.

— Mignon McLaughlin

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

— Mignon McLaughlin

“Most of us would rather risk a catastrophe than read the instructions.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die…

— Mignon McLaughlin

Don't look for God where He is needed most; if you didn't bring Him there, He isn't there.

— Mignon McLaughlin

My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I'm ashamed of what I think of doctors in general.

— Mignon McLaughlin

In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it

— Mignon McLaughlin

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Men gossip less than women, but mean it.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Others follow patterns; we alone are unpredictable.

— Mignon McLaughlin

In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Don't be yourself. Be someone a little nicer.

— Mignon McLaughlin

We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The first two days of a vacation are endless; then it flies.

— Mignon McLaughlin

If it came true, it wasn't much of a dream.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The neurotic has perfect vision in one eye, but he cannot remember which.

— Mignon McLaughlin

When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.

— Mignon McLaughlin

If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The young do not need God, and the old cannot find Him.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.

— Mignon McLaughlin