Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

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

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

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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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The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.

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

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

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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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Psychiatrists are terrible ads for themselves, like a dermatologist with acne.

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Goods are displayed by thousands of shopkeepers with a sense of beauty that finds no other outlet.

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Many of us are equal to life's emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness.

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Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers.

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Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.

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

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Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.

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The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.

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It's easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child - at least till you try to get him to do something.

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If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they'll stop making it tomorrow; if it's all three, they stopped making it yesterday.

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With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.

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Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.

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A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch.

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If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well.

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Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it.

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Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed.

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There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human beings like that.

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My religious position: I think that God could do a lot better, and I'm willing to give Him the chance.

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Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.

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

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