In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The hardest learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week. — 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 Copy Share Image
People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Many of us are equal to life's emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I tell you this, and I tell you plain: What you have done, you will do again; You will bite your tongue,… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you. — 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 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 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
As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway. — Mignon McLaughlin 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 Copy Share Image
The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn't, He is behaving like God. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner. — 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
