Mignon McLaughlin Quotes - Page 4

One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.

A woman's mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband.

It is always safe to tell people that they're looking wonderful.

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.

Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.

Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite.

Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first.

Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.

Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between.

We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"

The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.

Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway.

Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar.

I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice.

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

The plague of government is senile delinquency.

Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity, and always its result.

The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.

Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

Every creature stalks some other, catches it, and is caught.

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God.

Don't ask others to forgive in you a sin they're dying to commit themselves.