Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

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

If you had an unhappy childhood, you will always want to sleep late in the morning.

We tell our children things which we know are not so, but which we wish were so.

There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.

A childhood can be judged sheltered or not according to which was learned first, the four-letter word or the euphemism.

When children are bored, it reflects on us all.

In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own.

Anything you do from the heart enriches you, but sometimes not till years later.

Most of us can easily do two things at once; what’s all but impossible is to do one thing at once.

True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive.

If you have to do it every day, for God’s sake learn to do it well.

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.

Irrelevant things may happen to you, but once they have happened they all become relevant.

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.