All Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
- Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't. Collapse
- Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does. Burglar
- Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there's no such thing as exactly enough.. Demoralizing
- Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else. Anything Else
- Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either. Behind
- Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too. Care
- How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born. Been
- Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible that both are right. Both
- There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure. Cure
- Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives. Age
- Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once. All
- A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him. Ails
- We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed. Entrepreneur
- The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances. Circumstances
- If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well. Day
- When hope is hungry, everything feeds it Everything Feeds
- Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along. Along
- Fields can lie fallow but we can't; we have less time. Entrepreneur
- If I knew why I worried so much, I wouldn't worry. Inspirational
- The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone. Almost Anyone