Mignon McLaughlin Quotes - Page 2

The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer.

We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.

There are always a few people you do a lot for, and a few who do a lot for you, but they're not the same people.

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

Pull yourself together' is seldom said to anyone who can.

Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.

Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.

Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.

Every now and then you run across radiantly attractive people and you're delighted to find they adore you, till you realize that they adore just about everybody - and that's what's made them radiantly attractive.

When a man falls in love, he wants to go to bed. When a woman falls in love, she wants to talk about it.

The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried.

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.

Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have.

We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.

Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.

We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.

You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.

If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they'll stop making it tomorrow; if it's all three, they stopped making it yesterday.

In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner.