Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had. … .
—Mignon McLaughlin
We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Love
When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Money
Despair is anger with no place to go.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Adversity
There’s only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that’s a writer sitting down to write.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Writing
The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn’t even know they carried
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Eating
Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Manners
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
Topics: Death
It’s innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn’t.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Innocence, Charm, Ignorance
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Self-Discovery
We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn’t matter.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Friendship
What we forgive too freely doesn’t stay forgiven.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Forgiveness
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
Topics: Drinking
Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Morality, Hypocrisy
An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners’ names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Writing
A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Writing
The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother’s Day are the good ones.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Mothers, Motherhood
Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Carpe-diem
Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what’s missing.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Love
Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can’t.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Love
Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: One liners
Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Happiness
The time to begin most things is ten years ago.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Procrastination
Never is a long, long word, but it’s less frustrating than “God knows when”.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Perspective
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Defense, Humor
We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Confidence
The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Revolution
Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Women
Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don’t, you don’t.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Attitude
Don’t be yourself – be someone a little nicer.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Kindness
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