Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.

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

One day you are an apprentice, and everybody's pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming.

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

It is always safe to tell people that they’re looking wonderful.

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

Mama does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Dada first.

There's no way to repay a mother's love, or lack of it.

It’s easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child–at least till you try to get him to do something.

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.

Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.

Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.

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

The family unit is man's noblest device for being bored.