"We work for praise, and dawdle once we…" — Mignon McLaughlin

"We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it."

— Mignon McLaughlin

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311 Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

Mignon McLaughlin has 311 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones.
There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt.
Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first.
Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it,…
Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.
What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.
If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject.
Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.
The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.
It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?
As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.
In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.

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I don't dawdle. I'm a surgeon. I make an incision, do what needs to be done and sew up the… — Dr Richard Selzer

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