Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

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• The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones.
• There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt.
• Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first.
• Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.
• Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.
• What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.
• If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject.
• Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.
• The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.
• It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?
• As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.
• In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.
• The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those…
• The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.
• The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.
• We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.
• Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.
• I tell you this, and I tell you plain: What you have done, you will do again; You will bite your tongue, careful or not,…
• Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.
• We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.

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