All Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
- In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner. Dinner
- Few of us write great novels; all of us live them. All
- We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's. Always Prefer
- Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette. Added
- The plague of government is senile delinquency. Delinquency
- Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you. Believe
- Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something. Aviation
- We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they? Fool
- Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing. God
- Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality. Children
- The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction. Desire
- Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be. Bit
- You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages. All
- Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.... Catastrophe
- The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it Full
- No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive. Both
- The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore. Anymore
- Money is much more exciting than anything it buys. Buys
- I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine. Afraid
- The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself. Golden