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Only Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin
- The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones.
- Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.
- They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.
- Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite.
- How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for…
- Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food,…
- A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.
- The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth.
- Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he's covered with…
- A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch.
- We're seldom drawn to a character we admire; only to a personality we like.
- I wish I'd said it first, and I don't even know who did: The only problems that money can solve are money problems.
- Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice.
- Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.
- The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about.
- Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.
- A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.
- Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.
- 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…
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