Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Don't look for God where He is needed most; if you didn't bring Him there, He isn't there. — Mignon McLaughlin God 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
In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner. — Mignon McLaughlin Dinner Copy Share Image
In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance. — Mignon McLaughlin Balance Copy Share Image
We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Goods are displayed by thousands of shopkeepers with a sense of beauty that finds no other outlet. — Mignon McLaughlin Beauty Copy Share Image
We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along. — Mignon McLaughlin Giving Copy Share Image
Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
It's easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child - at least till you try to get him to… — Mignon McLaughlin Children Copy Share Image
The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued. — Mignon McLaughlin Anxiety Copy Share Image
No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
It must infuriate our children to see us always so much more forbearing with everybody else's. — Mignon McLaughlin Child Copy Share Image
A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
People keep telling us about their love affairs, when what we really want to know is how much money they make and… — Mignon McLaughlin Affair 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 Feminism Copy Share Image
A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I know which side my bread is buttered on: the side which falls on the carpet. — Mignon McLaughlin Bread Copy Share Image
The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud. — Mignon McLaughlin Child Copy Share Image
It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live? — Mignon McLaughlin Age Copy Share Image
As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can. — Mignon McLaughlin Human Copy Share Image
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. — Mignon McLaughlin Courage Copy Share Image
If your husband expects you to laugh, do so; if he expects you to cry, don't; if you don't know what he… — Mignon McLaughlin Cry Copy Share Image
Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time. — Mignon McLaughlin Children 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 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
Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried. — Mignon McLaughlin Checkouts 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 Copy Share Image
“Our strenght is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show.” — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever. — Mignon McLaughlin Excess Copy Share Image
Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't. — Mignon McLaughlin Children Copy Share Image
