Mignon McLaughlin - People Quotes

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The hardest learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

Mignon McLaughlin
People keep telling us about their love affairs, when what we really want to know is how much money they make and how they manage on it.

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We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture.

Mignon McLaughlin
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

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We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.

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To talk easily with people, you must firmly believe that either you or they are interesting. And even then it's not easy.

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If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.

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People are like birds: on the wing, all beautiful; up close, all beady little eyes.

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Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways.

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The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone — until they do.

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There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.

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

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There are always a few people you do a lot for, and a few who do a lot for you, but they're not the same people.

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Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.

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A good executive is one who makes people contentedly settle for less than they meant to get, in return for more than they meant to give.

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People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.

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