Top 350 Mignon McLaughlin Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Everybody can write; writers can’t do anything else.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

52. “I know which side my bread is buttered on: the side which falls on the carpet.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

53. “We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

54. “Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

55. “You can’t truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

56. “The next voice you hear will undoubtedly be your own.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

57. “In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

58. “Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

59. “We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

60. “If you’re a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

61. “Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we’re damned if we’re going to show.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

62. “We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

63. “The time to begin most things is ten years ago.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

64. “People are like birds: on the wing, all beautiful; up close, all beady little eyes.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

66. “After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

67. “If the second marriage really succeeds, the first one didn’t really fail.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

68. “The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

69. “There’s an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

70. “The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

71. “Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don’t, you don’t.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

72. “Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

73. “Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

74. “It’s innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn’t.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

76. “It’s wonderful to watch a pretty woman with character grow beautiful.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

77. “Be glad that you’re greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren’t.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

78. “The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother’s Day are the good ones.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

79. “Forget about calories – everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

80. “Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

81. “Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there’s no such thing as exactly enough...”

— Mignon McLaughlin

82. “Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

83. “Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

84. “What’s for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

85. “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.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

86. “The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

87. “Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

88. “When “Why not do it?” barely outweighs “Why do it?” – don’t do it.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

89. “With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

90. “Men gossip less than women, but mean it.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

91. “When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

92. “Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

93. “Others follow patterns; we alone are unpredictable.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

94. “There’s nothing wrong with most men’s egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can’t cure.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

95. “Despair is anger with no place to go.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

96. “Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

97. “Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

98. “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.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

100. “When a man falls in love, he wants to go to bed. When a woman falls in love, she wants to talk about it.”

— Mignon McLaughlin