Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

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

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

Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.

My thoughts, I guess, are bitter; who but the bitter have thoughts?

In the theatre, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are.

If it came true, it wasn’t much of a dream.

Insult, not flattery, is the great aphrodisiac.

When we first fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.

The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth.

I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.

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

The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.