Top 350 Mignon McLaughlin Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “We’re seldom drawn to a character we admire; only to a personality we like.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

152. “Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

153. “Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

154. “Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

155. “Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity, and always its result.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

156. “There are always a few people you do a lot for, and a few who do a lot for you, but they’re not the same people.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

157. “A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

158. “We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

159. “The young do not need God, and the old cannot find Him.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

160. “A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

161. “Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

162. “We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

163. “The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

164. “Don’t look for God where He is needed most; if you didn’t bring Him there, He isn’t there.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

165. “A woman will do anything to keep a pretty figure, but hardly anything to get one.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

166. “Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you’re there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

167. “We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

168. “Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

169. “Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

170. “Philosophy teaches a man that he can’t take it with him; taxes teach him he can’t leave it behind either.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

171. “Nobody knows the trouble we’ve seen-but we keep trying to tell them.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

172. “To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

173. “Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

174. “A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

175. “Men who don’t like girls with brains don’t like girls.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

176. “Elegimos aquellos que nos gusta, con los que amamos, no tenemos voz en el asunto.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

177. “Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can’t.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

178. “Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

179. “Neurotics have plenty of non-neurotic friends, but not for long.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

180. “I’m afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can’t stop competing; otherwise I’m fine.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

181. “A doctor recently described to me “benign positional vertigo”: it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily changing the position. Change “vertigo” to “anxiety,” and you’ve summed up the neurotic’s plight.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

182. “Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

183. “Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

184. “I wish I’d said it first, and I don’t even know who did: The only problems that money can solve are money problems.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

186. “Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

187. “No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you’ll see why.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

188. “Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

189. “Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

190. “A perfect marriage is one in which “I’m sorry” is said just often enough.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

191. “A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

192. “If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

193. “Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe in the play.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

194. “In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

195. “A woman’s mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

196. “It’s hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?”

— Mignon McLaughlin

197. “They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they’d only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

198. “To talk easily with people, you must firmly believe that either you or they are interesting. And even then it’s not easy.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

199. “Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

200. “We can never understand other people’s motives, nor their furniture.”

— Mignon McLaughlin