Mignon McLaughlin Quotes - Page 15

Altruism is a hard master, but so is opportunism.

Cash is the one gift everyone despises and no one turns down.

Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.

Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English.

If the second marriage really succeeds, the first one didn't really fail.

It's wonderful to watch pretty women with character grow beautiful.

An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.

People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.

The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth.

No woman wants to see herself too clearly.

The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about.

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 down to write.

The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he loves.

Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.

A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily changing the position. Change "vertigo" to "anxiety," and you've summed up the neurotic's plight.

The next voice you hear will undoubtedly be your own.

If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.

The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match.

When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say.

Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else.

A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love.

If it came true, it wasn't much of a dream.

So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn't, He is behaving like God.

Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.

Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.