Mignon McLaughlin

Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.

— Mignon McLaughlin

A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Nobody ever loved anybody like everybody wants to be loved.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between.

— Mignon McLaughlin

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport.

— Mignon McLaughlin

I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.

— Mignon McLaughlin

People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.

— Mignon McLaughlin

What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.

— Mignon McLaughlin

An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the…

— Mignon McLaughlin

We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?

— Mignon McLaughlin

All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.

— Mignon McLaughlin

After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Revenge leads to an empty fullness, like eating dirt.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Sometimes the pleasure principle gets the best of my better judgment.

— Mignon McLaughlin

When "Why not do it?" barely outweighs "Why do it?" — don't do it.

— Mignon McLaughlin

We semaphore from ship to ship, but they're sinking, too.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.

— Mignon McLaughlin

I've been hiding from God, and I'm appalled to find how easy it is.

— Mignon McLaughlin

It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.

— Mignon McLaughlin

When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors.

— Mignon McLaughlin

If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart.

— Mignon McLaughlin

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

— Mignon McLaughlin

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The plague of government is senile delinquency.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Every group feels strong once it has found a scapegoat.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.

— Mignon McLaughlin

No woman wants to see herself too clearly.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.

— Mignon McLaughlin

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.

— Mignon McLaughlin

My thoughts, I guess, are bitter; who but the bitter have thoughts?

— Mignon McLaughlin

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

— Mignon McLaughlin