For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance. — Mignon McLaughlin Chance Copy Share Image
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was… — Mignon McLaughlin Age Copy Share Image
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
A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him. — Mignon McLaughlin Doctor Copy Share Image
Women are good listeners, but it's a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there's something specific you want… — Mignon McLaughlin Feminism Copy Share Image
There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults. — Mignon McLaughlin Adults 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 Alibi Copy Share Image
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs. — Mignon McLaughlin Bulbs Copy Share Image
Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God. — Mignon McLaughlin Comfort Copy Share Image
Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own. — Mignon McLaughlin Defeat Copy Share Image
A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species. — Mignon McLaughlin Distrust Copy Share Image
Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt,… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
An artist usually has no friends except other artists, and usually they do not like his work. — Mignon McLaughlin Art Copy Share Image
Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette. — Mignon McLaughlin Animal Copy Share Image
Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible that both are right. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they'll stop making it tomorrow; if it's all three, they stopped making it… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men. — Mignon McLaughlin Facts Copy Share Image
Anything you do from the heart enriches you, but sometimes not till years later. — Mignon McLaughlin Enriches Copy Share Image
The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk. — Mignon McLaughlin Funny Copy Share Image
We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. — Mignon McLaughlin Arithmetic Copy Share Image
It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time. — Mignon McLaughlin Country Copy Share Image
The way the neurotic sees it: bars on his door mean that he's locked in; bars on your door mean that he's… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're… — Mignon McLaughlin Blessed Copy Share Image
We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier. — Mignon McLaughlin Action 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 Copy Share Image
A productive marriage requires falling in enjoy numerous occasions, usually with the identical man or woman. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character. — Mignon McLaughlin Action Copy Share Image
Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
After he has had his tantrum, the neurotic expects those around him to feel friendly and relaxed; after all, he does. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English. — Mignon McLaughlin Children Copy Share Image
We're seldom drawn to a character we admire; only to a personality we like. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The hardest learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind. — Mignon McLaughlin Giving Copy Share Image
My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I'm ashamed of what I think of doctors in general. — Mignon McLaughlin Ashamed Copy Share Image
In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one. — Mignon McLaughlin Character Copy Share Image
