Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter.
Mignon McLaughlinYou will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.
Mignon McLaughlinThe three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.
Mignon McLaughlinThe chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.
Mignon McLaughlinIt's easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child - at least till you try to get him to do something.
Mignon McLaughlinMany of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe in the play.
Mignon McLaughlinEvery now and then you run across radiantly attractive people and you're delighted to find they adore you, till you realize that they adore just about everybody - and that's what's made them radiantly attractive.
Mignon McLaughlinLoneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.
Mignon McLaughlinAn artist usually has no friends except other artists, and usually they do not like his work.
Mignon McLaughlinIt's awesome to realize that if your greatest potential talent is for riding a bicycle upside down on a high wire, you will somehow discover it.
Mignon McLaughlinEven in the same family, one child will always instinctively know when to ask for things, and another won't.
Mignon McLaughlinWomen gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.
Mignon McLaughlinThe past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.
Mignon McLaughlinCreative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.
Mignon McLaughlinNo matter how many Christmas presents you give your child, there's always that terrible moment when he's opened the very last one. That's when he expects you to say, 'Oh yes, I almost forgot,' and take him out and show him the pony.
Mignon McLaughlinThere are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.
Mignon McLaughlinIn retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own.
Mignon McLaughlinWhether or not you love television, you've got to admit that it certainly loves itself.
Mignon McLaughlinThe neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match.
Mignon McLaughlinThere's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.
Mignon McLaughlinYou can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.
Mignon McLaughlinVanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity.
Mignon McLaughlinThe past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.
Mignon McLaughlinNeurotics make poor patriots; if you're ashamed of something as big as yourself, it's hard to be proud of something as small as your country.
Mignon McLaughlinMen 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.
Mignon McLaughlinThroughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.
Mignon McLaughlinI 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