Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

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There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.

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

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Healthy parakeets have the nervous energy of tennis players.

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An artist usually has no friends except other artists, and usually they do not like his work.

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In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own.

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Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.

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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.

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Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.

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Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.

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Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.

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As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.

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

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Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

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It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.

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No-one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

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

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Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money.

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Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't.

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How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him.

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We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.

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The only kind of courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

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What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us.

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Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.

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If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.

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Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice.

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A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

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Nobody really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

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I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine.

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

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My thoughts, I guess, are bitter: who but the bitter have thoughts?

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