Mignon McLaughlin (1913 – 1983)
American journalist and author.
Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.
The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for.
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.
The family unit is man's noblest device for being bored.
Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.
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.
Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.
Women are never landlocked: they’re always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.
The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.
How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him.
Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.
Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.
A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.
Women 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.
Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.