Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

On stage and off, we care what happens to a beautiful woman, whether she can act well or not.

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

The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone - until they do.

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

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

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

'Pull yourself together' is seldom said to anyone who can.

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.

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

People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fiber called courage.

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.

Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those changes that would make all the difference.

Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.

If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they'll stop making it tomorrow; if it's all three, they stopped making it yesterday.