Mignon McLaughlin (1913 – 1983)
American journalist and author.
Nobody really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
Irrelevant things may happen to you, but once they have happened they all become relevant.
Injure a businessman and he'll try to make you sorry; injure an artist and he'll try to make you immortal.
If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject.
Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway.
We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.
Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.
Charity is a good way of reminding God that if we can do it, He can.
One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.
The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself.
It is a feeling at once stimulating and flat, to know that someone you do not love is in love with you.
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.
The family unit is man's noblest device for being bored.
Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those changes that would make all the difference.
Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.
What we forgive too freely doesn’t stay forgiven.
The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
There’s an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.
Did that leave an undesirable taste in your mouth? Let’s take a swig.