Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

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When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.

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Whether or not you love television, you've got to admit that it certainly loves itself.

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A woman's mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband.

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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.

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Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.

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The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.

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The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.

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With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins.

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If you jot down every silly thought that pops into your mind, you will soon find out everything you most seriously believe.

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A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

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

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

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

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

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Anything you do from the heart enriches you, but sometimes not till years later.

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Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.

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

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Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.

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The way the neurotic sees it: bars on his door mean that he's locked in; bars on your door mean that he's locked out.

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We often pray to be better, when in truth we only want to feel better.

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Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.

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All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.

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Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.

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

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Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar.

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When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

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Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show.

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Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it.

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The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic.

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Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all

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