Mignon McLaughlin Quotes - Page 6

It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.

Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.

I know which side my bread is buttered on: the side which falls on the carpet.

Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel and cry.

When first we fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.

Every group feels strong once it has found a scapegoat.

We cough because we can't help it, but others do it on purpose.

No one ever loved anyone the way that person wanted to be loved.

There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved.

A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.

Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.

When hope is hungry, everything feeds it

Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't.

Things are never so bad that they can't get worse. But they're sometimes so bad they can't get better.

Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.

If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.

If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.

In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.

The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.

Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe in the play.

We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.

Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.

There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human beings like that.