Mignon McLaughlin (1913 – 1983)
American journalist and author.
The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.
In every group of intimidated people, each thinks "I will rebel," but each waits for the others.
In church, sacred music would make believers of us all—but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.
If you can tell anyone about it, it's not the worst thing you ever did.
When we have been humiliated by someone we love, it takes all our strength to pretend to recover from it.
We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.
The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.
Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.
The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.
There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.
Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.
Good-looking girls break hearts, and good-hearted girls mend them.
As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can.
The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport.
Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.
A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.
Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
Most women would like to dress imaginatively, but they glare at any woman who does.
We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy; whiskey and action are easier.