The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
There are always a few people you do a lot for, and a few who do a lot for you, but they're… — Mignon McLaughlin Kindness Copy Share Image
Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter. — Mignon McLaughlin About friendship Copy Share Image
I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little… — Mignon McLaughlin Fire Copy Share Image
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one. — Mignon McLaughlin Forgetting Copy Share Image
With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried. — Mignon McLaughlin Checkouts Copy Share Image
If your husband expects you to laugh, do so; if he expects you to cry, don't; if you don't know what he… — Mignon McLaughlin Cry Copy Share Image
Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time. — Mignon McLaughlin Children Copy Share Image
When first we fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life. And perhaps we are… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. — Mignon McLaughlin Book Copy Share Image
If you jot down every silly thought that pops into your mind, you will soon find out everything you most seriously believe. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Neurotics make poor patriots; if you're ashamed of something as big as yourself, it's hard to be proud of something as small… — Mignon McLaughlin Ashamed Copy Share Image
Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there's no such thing as exactly enough.. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The neurotic doesn't know how to cope with his emotional bills; some he keeps paying over and over, others he never pays… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever. — Mignon McLaughlin Excess Copy Share Image
“Our strenght is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show.” — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't. — Mignon McLaughlin Children Copy Share Image
There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so. — Mignon McLaughlin Fantasies Copy Share Image
A good executive is one who makes people contentedly settle for less than they meant to get, in return for more than… — Mignon McLaughlin Executive Copy Share Image
Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it. — Mignon McLaughlin Child Copy Share Image
Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt. — Mignon McLaughlin Creative Copy Share Image
The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction. — Mignon McLaughlin Desire Copy Share Image
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might. — Mignon McLaughlin Animal Copy Share Image
As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it. — Mignon McLaughlin Age Copy Share Image
True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive. — Mignon McLaughlin Consequence Copy Share Image
Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all — Mignon McLaughlin Business Copy Share Image
Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children. — Mignon McLaughlin Children 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
Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either. — Mignon McLaughlin Boldness Copy Share Image
In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire. — Mignon McLaughlin Age Copy Share Image
There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved. — Mignon McLaughlin Chains Copy Share Image
We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
