Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

When a stranger identifies you from a friend's description, it's just as well you didn't hear the description.

Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.

Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.

The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for.

Bored with your present enemies? Make new ones! Tell two of your women friends that they look alike.

The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated.

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

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

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

Sooner or later, they govern who are determined to.

If the second marriage really succeeds, the first one didn't really fail.

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