"Your money, or your life. We know what……" — Mignon McLaughlin
"Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does."
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311 Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin
Mignon McLaughlin has 311 quotes on this site.
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The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones.
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There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt.
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Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first.
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Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it,…
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Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.
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What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.
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If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject.
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Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.
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The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.
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It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?
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As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.
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In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.
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After a burglary of all her most valued and treasured possessions, Winston Churchill's aging mother wrote: "That burglar relieved me…
— Anne Sebba
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The best of Donald Westlake's pseudonymous thrillers about Parker, the toughest burglar who ever lived. . . .Out of print…
— Terry Teachout
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In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been…
— Simone Weil
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Looking for an honest politician is like looking for an ethical burglar.
— H. L. Mencken
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If you're a burglar, it's no good waiting about outside somebody's house, looking good with your swag bag ready. Just…
— Ian Holloway
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Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A great measure of a man is how he reacts to a midnight awakening when there's no fire or burglar…
— Kate Jacobs
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When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook…
— W. S. Gilbert
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Concerning politics: "The American media is like a watchdog who has developed an affection for the burglar."
— Unknown Author
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Crime in the cities is very discouraging. Apartment house dwellers have locks, bolts, chains and bars on their doors. It…
— Sam Ewing
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If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.
— G. Gordon Liddy
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I'd probably be a burglar, I'd burgle people.
— Tre Cool
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