Top 350 Mignon McLaughlin Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “The next voice you hear will undoubtedly be your own.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

60. “Pessimism is like optimism, only less dangerous.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

65. “Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

67. “The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive – perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

80. “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

81. “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

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

86. “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

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

88. “A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

95. “Fields can lie fallow but we can’t; we have less time.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

98. “I’ve been hiding from God, and I’m appalled to find how easy it is.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

99. “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

100. “Women are good listeners, but it’s a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there’s something specific you want him to do.”

— Mignon McLaughlin