Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English. — Mignon McLaughlin Children 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 Bite Copy Share Image
A productive marriage requires falling in enjoy numerous occasions, usually with the identical man or woman. — Mignon McLaughlin Enjoy Copy Share Image
What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are… — Mignon McLaughlin Allowance Copy Share Image
It's awesome to realize that if your greatest potential talent is for riding a bicycle upside down on a high wire, you… — Mignon McLaughlin Bicycle Copy Share Image
Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you. — Mignon McLaughlin Believe Copy Share Image
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer. — Mignon McLaughlin Age Copy Share Image
Many of us are equal to life's emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness. — Mignon McLaughlin Bears Copy Share Image
The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius. — Mignon McLaughlin Neurotic Copy Share Image
“You never realize how tacky your furniture is till you try to give it to the Salvation Army and they won't take… — Mignon McLaughlin Salvation army Copy Share Image
We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they? — Mignon McLaughlin Fool Copy Share Image
Forget about calories — everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter. — Mignon McLaughlin Calories Copy Share Image
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. — Mignon McLaughlin Communication 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 Cottages Copy Share Image
The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match. — Mignon McLaughlin Feels Copy Share Image
Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't. — Mignon McLaughlin Arms Copy Share Image
Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing. — Mignon McLaughlin Desire Copy Share Image
Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children. — Mignon McLaughlin Children Copy Share Image
Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go… — Mignon McLaughlin Boundaries Copy Share Image
Neurotics make poor patriots; if you're ashamed of something as big as yourself, it's hard to be proud of something as small… — Mignon McLaughlin Ashamed Copy Share Image
The neurotic doesn't know how to cope with his emotional bills; some he keeps paying over and over, others he never pays… — Mignon McLaughlin Bills Copy Share Image
A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. — Mignon McLaughlin Book 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 Fall Copy Share Image
