Inspirational Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— 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

Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God…

— Mignon McLaughlin

The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.

— Mignon McLaughlin

It's terrifying to see someone inside of whom a vital spring seems to have been broken. It's particularly terrifying to see him…

— Mignon McLaughlin

Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers.

— Mignon McLaughlin

We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Anywhere you go liking everyone, everyone will be likeable.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.

— Mignon McLaughlin

So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn't, He is behaving like God.

— Mignon McLaughlin

When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.

— Mignon McLaughlin

When hope is hungry, everything feeds it

— Mignon McLaughlin

What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

— Mignon McLaughlin

No woman wants to see herself too clearly.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart.

— Mignon McLaughlin

It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.

— Mignon McLaughlin

How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time…

— Mignon McLaughlin

There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.

— Mignon McLaughlin