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One Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin
- We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.
- No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.
- Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity.
- A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough.
- Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once.
- A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.
- Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.
- Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both.
- A woman will do anything to keep a pretty figure, but hardly anything to get one.
- The neurotic has perfect vision in one eye, but he cannot remember which.
- Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way.
- With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.
- In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
- No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
- When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
- A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.
- There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting…
- What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.
- The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
- No one ever loved anyone the way that person wanted to be loved.
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- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle