Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

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• If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.
• If it came true, it wasn't much of a dream.
• A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.
• We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.
• In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.
• I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.
• A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.
• All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.
• Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.
• No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.
• Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.
• Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.
• The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried.
• To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work.
• They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.
• Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart.
• God doesn't measure His bounty, but oh how we do!
• God is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects.
• People are like birds: on the wing, all beautiful; up close, all beady little eyes.
• If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.

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