Mignon McLaughlin

Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.

— Mignon McLaughlin

If you can tell anyone about it, it's not the worst thing you ever did.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.

— Mignon McLaughlin

A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Nobody ever loved anybody like everybody wants to be loved.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Revenge leads to an empty fullness, like eating dirt.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her…

— Mignon McLaughlin

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.

— Mignon McLaughlin

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

— Mignon McLaughlin

We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God.

— Mignon McLaughlin

In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had

— Mignon McLaughlin

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.

— Mignon McLaughlin

We semaphore from ship to ship, but they're sinking, too.

— Mignon McLaughlin

I've been hiding from God, and I'm appalled to find how easy it is.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Sometimes the pleasure principle gets the best of my better judgment.

— Mignon McLaughlin

When "Why not do it?" barely outweighs "Why do it?" — don't do it.

— Mignon McLaughlin

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.

— Mignon McLaughlin

There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt,…

— Mignon McLaughlin

An artist usually has no friends except other artists, and usually they do not like his work.

— Mignon McLaughlin

A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is…

— Mignon McLaughlin

After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.

— Mignon McLaughlin

“You never realize how tacky your furniture is till you try to give it to the Salvation Army and they won't take…

— Mignon McLaughlin

To talk easily with people, you must firmly believe that either you or they are interesting. And even then it's not easy.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Things are never so bad that they can't get worse. But they're sometimes so bad they can't get better.

— Mignon McLaughlin

One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.

— Mignon McLaughlin

An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the…

— Mignon McLaughlin