Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too. — Mignon McLaughlin Age Copy Share Image
People are like birds: on the wing, all beautiful; up close, all beady little eyes. — Mignon McLaughlin Beautiful Copy Share Image
Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity, and always its result. — Mignon McLaughlin Boredom Copy Share Image
Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either. — Mignon McLaughlin Behinds Copy Share Image
We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still. — Mignon McLaughlin Caught Copy Share Image
Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix. — Mignon McLaughlin Blessing Copy Share Image
People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way. — Mignon McLaughlin Hypocrisy Copy Share Image
The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well. — Mignon McLaughlin Bigs Copy Share Image
It's terrifying to see someone inside of whom a vital spring seems to have been broken. It's particularly terrifying to see him… — Mignon McLaughlin Broken Copy Share Image
There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi. — Mignon McLaughlin Crosses Copy Share Image
Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have. — Mignon McLaughlin Failing Copy Share Image
In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits. — Mignon McLaughlin Bad habit Copy Share Image
Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar. — Mignon McLaughlin Absence Copy Share Image
If you jot down every silly thought that pops into your mind, you will soon find out everything you most seriously believe. — Mignon McLaughlin Believe Copy Share Image
The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he… — Mignon McLaughlin Awake Copy Share Image
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one minute to the next — Mignon McLaughlin Courage Copy Share Image
Sometimes the pleasure principle gets the best of my better judgment. — Mignon McLaughlin Integrity Copy Share Image
The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought… — Mignon McLaughlin Alive Copy Share Image
The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't. — Mignon McLaughlin Believe Copy Share Image
We semaphore from ship to ship, but they're sinking, too. — Mignon McLaughlin Inspirational Copy Share Image
Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud. — Mignon McLaughlin Children Copy Share Image
It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it. — Mignon McLaughlin Acknowledge Copy Share Image
Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on. — Mignon McLaughlin Goes on Copy Share Image
