Mignon McLaughlin (1913 – 1983)
American journalist and author.
We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
There's little enough to be said for nationalism, so let's say it and have done.
Young lovers and young nations face the same problem: after orgasm, what?
Money is the best counterfeit money.
Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.
The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth.
Any woman can talk herself into being in love with any man, for a while anyway.
Don't be yourself-be someone a little nicer.
The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me.
The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.
Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.
Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.
Revenge leads to an empty fullness, like eating dirt.
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
My religious position: I think that God could do a lot better, and I'm willing to give Him the chance.
The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.
Every group of six or more has its inner circle, its outer circle, and its hangers-on.
If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they'll stop making it tomorrow; if it's all three, they stopped making it yesterday.
In the theatre, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.