Mignon McLaughlin Quotes - Page 9

All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.

There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt.

Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.

A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.

Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.

The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.

Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't.

Elegimos aquellos que nos gusta, con los que amamos, no tenemos voz en el asunto.

The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.

Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.

Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.

The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.

What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.

Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.

Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it.

Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter.

God and the devil lose to a common enemy: inertia.

Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.

We climb mountains because they are there, and worship God because He is not.

What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures.

Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money.

We semaphore from ship to ship, but they're sinking, too.

We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter.

I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine.

It must infuriate our children to see us always so much more forbearing with everybody else's.