Mignon McLaughlin Quotes - Page 8

Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.

Women who feel naked without their lipstick are well over thirty.

Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers.

Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't.

The fault we admit to is seldom the fault we have, but it has a certain relationship to it, a somewhat similar shape, like that of a sleeve to an arm.

Men gossip less than women, but mean it.

There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.

Forget about calories - everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter.

We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

Women are good listeners, but it's a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there's something specific you want him to do.

If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.

Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls.

It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?

We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.

How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born.

Many of us are equal to life's emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness.

A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.

A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.

Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.

The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.

Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor.