All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men. — Mignon McLaughlin Competition 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
An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the… — Mignon McLaughlin Jokes Copy Share Image
Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news. — Mignon McLaughlin Awakened Copy Share Image
I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little… — Mignon McLaughlin Fire Copy Share Image
We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter. — Mignon McLaughlin About friendship Copy Share Image
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one. — Mignon McLaughlin Forgetting Copy Share Image
With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it. — Mignon McLaughlin Knows Copy Share Image
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today. — Mignon McLaughlin Done Copy Share Image
There are always a few people you do a lot for, and a few who do a lot for you, but they're… — Mignon McLaughlin Kindness Copy Share Image
The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love. — Mignon McLaughlin Convenience Copy Share Image
A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love. — Mignon McLaughlin Lasts Copy Share Image
Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets. — Mignon McLaughlin Appearance Copy Share Image
Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! — Mignon McLaughlin Albert einstein Copy Share Image
With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins. — Mignon McLaughlin Comfort Copy Share Image
I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine. — Mignon McLaughlin Afraid Copy Share Image
How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time… — Mignon McLaughlin Adolescence 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
We climb mountains because they are there, and worship God because He is not. — Mignon McLaughlin Climb Copy Share Image
Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter. — Mignon McLaughlin Break Copy Share Image
The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it. — Mignon McLaughlin Money Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure. — Mignon McLaughlin Cures Copy Share Image
People are like birds: on the wing, all beautiful; up close, all beady little eyes. — Mignon McLaughlin Beautiful 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 all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair. — Mignon McLaughlin Affair Copy Share Image
How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him. — Mignon McLaughlin God Copy Share Image
The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special… — Mignon McLaughlin Circumstances Copy Share Image
We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed. — Mignon McLaughlin Entrepreneur Copy Share Image
There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt. — Mignon McLaughlin Atheist Copy Share Image
A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it. — Mignon McLaughlin Expensive Copy Share Image
Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe… — Mignon McLaughlin Actor Copy Share Image
Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference. — Mignon McLaughlin Change Copy Share Image
Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed. — Mignon McLaughlin Flower Copy Share Image
Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once. — Mignon McLaughlin Easily Copy Share Image
The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well. — Mignon McLaughlin Bigs Copy Share Image
Don't ask others to forgive in you a sin they're dying to commit themselves. — Mignon McLaughlin Asks 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
Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist. — Mignon McLaughlin Dread Copy Share Image
We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it. — Mignon McLaughlin Attitude Copy Share Image
People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way. — Mignon McLaughlin Disapprove Copy Share Image
