Mignon McLaughlin Quotes - Page 7

When we discuss those we love with those who do not love them, the end of love is near.

Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.

When "Why not do it?" barely outweighs "Why do it?" — don't do it.

No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.

When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.

Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all

Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he's covered with warts and is only after her money.

The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.

A bore: one who knows as well as you do what he is going to say next.

We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.

Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk.

Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.

My religious position: I think that God could do a lot better, and I'm willing to give Him the chance.

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.

Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.

I've been hiding from God, and I'm appalled to find how easy it is.

Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.

The young do not need God, and the old cannot find Him.

If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.

After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage.

Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.