I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough. — Mignon McLaughlin Comedy Copy Share Image
What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
If only we could be old and sick while we're still young and healthy enough to put up with it! — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice. — Mignon McLaughlin Choices Copy Share Image
Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel… — Mignon McLaughlin Audience Copy Share Image
There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's… — Mignon McLaughlin Children 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 Attitude Copy Share Image
People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way. — Mignon McLaughlin Inspirational Copy Share Image
Not for nothing does the neurotic suffer - but not for anything very much, either. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought… — Mignon McLaughlin Alive Copy Share Image
Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed. — Mignon McLaughlin Flower 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 Change Copy Share Image
Don't ask others to forgive in you a sin they're dying to commit themselves. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with… — Mignon McLaughlin Cottages Copy Share Image
The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well. — 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
How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him. — Mignon McLaughlin God Copy Share Image
The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair. — Mignon McLaughlin Affair Copy Share Image
A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe… — Mignon McLaughlin Actor Copy Share Image
There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt. — Mignon McLaughlin Atheist 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 Entrepreneur Copy Share Image
Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We climb mountains because they are there, and worship God because He is not. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. — Mignon McLaughlin Communication 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
People are like birds: on the wing, all beautiful; up close, all beady little eyes. — Mignon McLaughlin Beautiful Copy Share Image
The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it. — Mignon McLaughlin Money Copy Share Image
Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! — 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 Comfort Copy Share Image
I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Forget about calories — everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it. — 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 Adolescence Copy Share Image
