If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Letters
Good-looking girls break hearts, and goodhearted girls mend them.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Women
Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: One liners
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
Topics: Change, Value
Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Reading
What we forgive too freely doesn’t stay forgiven.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Forgiveness
How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he’s going to wind up wanting hasn’t even been born.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Men
Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Anger
For the happiest life, rigorously plan your days, leave your nights open to chance.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Night
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Humor, Defense
It’s impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Integrity
Says the rude child: “No, I won’t do it”. Says the courteous grown-up: “Yes, I won’t do it”.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Manners
We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Hypocrisy
Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Family
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
Topics: Money
Women go to beauty parlors for the unmussed look men hate.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Women
If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Health
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Action
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Money
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you’ll see why.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Listening, Boredom
We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else’s.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Kindness
Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Men
Despair is anger with no place to go.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Adversity
Always live up to your standards – by lowering them, if necessary.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Perfection
Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there’s no such thing as exactly enough.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Money
Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don’t, you don’t.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Attitude
Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can’t.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Love
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
Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren’t even there before.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Love
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