Mignon McLaughlin (1913 – 1983)
American journalist and author.
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
It’s easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child–at least till you try to get him to do something.
Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God.
Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible they are right.
If everyone gave a tenth of his worldly goods to the person he most admired, the rich would just get richer.
Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part, and does not believe in the play.
If you made a list of the reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.
Despair is anger with no place to go.
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
Anything you do from the heart enriches you, but sometimes not till years later.
We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?
If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.
The neurotic doesn't know how to cope with his emotional bills; some he keeps paying over and over, others he never pays at all.
For the happiest life, days should he rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.
Sooner or later, they govern who are determined to.
Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.
No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.
Insult, not flattery, is the great aphrodisiac.
If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.