Mignon McLaughlin (1913 – 1983)
American journalist and author.
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.
Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show.
When a woman reaches forty, she must wait twenty years for her husband to catch up.
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.
After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage!
I have seen messed-up people of forty who still seemed salvageable, and children of six or seven who almost surely were not.
The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.
An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.
A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.
Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.