Mignon Quotes & Sayings

The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic. — Mignon McLaughlin

Few of us write great novels; all of us live them. — Mignon McLaughlin

We can never at any time absorb more love than we're ready for. — Mignon McLaughlin

It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't. — Mignon McLaughlin

We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay. — Mignon McLaughlin

A request not to worry is perhaps the least soothing message capable of human utterance. — Mignon G. Eberhart

People keep telling us about their love affairs, when what we really want to know is how much money they make and how they manage on it. — Mignon McLaughlin

How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them. — Mignon McLaughlin

The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years. — Mignon McLaughlin

The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol. — Mignon McLaughlin

The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it. — Mignon McLaughlin

We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture. — Mignon McLaughlin

Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have. — Mignon McLaughlin

The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport. — Mignon McLaughlin

When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy. — Marilyn Monroe

We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along. — Mignon McLaughlin

To talk easily with people, you must firmly believe that either you or they are interesting. And even then it's not easy. — Mignon McLaughlin

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance. — Mignon McLaughlin

We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter. — Mignon McLaughlin

Every group feels strong once it has found a scapegoat. — Mignon McLaughlin

I always thought filet mignon was the steak to beat, but the fat content in a rib eye is fantastic. — Neil Patrick Harris

Murder is not polite. — Mignon G. Eberhart

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent. — Mignon McLaughlin

I've been hiding from God, and I'm appalled to find how easy it is. — Mignon McLaughlin

Every creatures stalks some other, and catches it, and is caught. — Mignon McLaughlin

If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject. — Mignon McLaughlin

Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom. — Mignon McLaughlin

Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it. — Mignon McLaughlin

Beware of those who love to give advice, but never want to receive it! — Mignon' Talise Padilla

The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing. — Mignon McLaughlin

Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves. — Mignon McLaughlin

God doesn't measure His bounty, but oh how we do! — Mignon McLaughlin

Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed. — Mignon McLaughlin

Love is often gentle, desire always a rage. — Mignon McLaughlin

Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too. — Mignon McLaughlin

If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed. — Mignon McLaughlin

One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week. — Mignon McLaughlin

Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality. — Mignon McLaughlin

Fields can lie fallow but we can't; we have less time. — Mignon McLaughlin

It is always safe to tell people that they're looking wonderful. — Mignon McLaughlin

We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs. — Mignon McLaughlin

We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it. — Mignon McLaughlin

All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men. — Mignon McLaughlin

When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor. — Mignon McLaughlin

I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine. — Mignon McLaughlin

No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves. — Mignon McLaughlin

A good executive is one who makes people contentedly settle for less than they meant to get, in return for more than they meant to give. — Mignon McLaughlin

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it. — Mignon McLaughlin

Neurotics have plenty of non-neurotic friends, but not for long. — Mignon McLaughlin

What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us. — Mignon McLaughlin

I have no religion, for I have spent too many years eating from the tree of knowledge. — Mignon Ariel King

People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough. — Mignon McLaughlin

Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls. — Mignon McLaughlin

In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one. — Mignon McLaughlin

Lois looked edible, and you know it was tender all the way through, a kind of mystic combination of filet mignon and a Georgia peach aching for the tongue and ready to bleed gold. — Robert Penn Warren

I'm not looking to be a Big Mac and fries author a la King. I'm aiming at filet mignon and steamed zucchini. — LK Hunsaker

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. — Mignon McLaughlin

Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't. — Mignon McLaughlin

It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live? — Mignon McLaughlin

If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors. — Mignon McLaughlin

The fault we admit to is seldom the fault we have, but it has a certain relationship to it, a somewhat similar shape, like that of a sleeve to an arm. — Mignon McLaughlin

No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it. — Mignon McLaughlin

In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire. — Mignon McLaughlin

He decorated his accomplishments with a large house, yachts, and weekly morale shindigs for his salesmen bursting with open bars and filet mignon. However, my mother was by far his prettiest accessory. — Maggie Young

Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers. — Mignon McLaughlin

There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write. — Mignon McLaughlin

The complexity of human relationships is never simple to follow; it is like intricate lacework, but lacework made of steel. — Mignon G. Eberhart

It must infuriate our children to see us always so much more forbearing with everybody else's. — Mignon McLaughlin

Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart. — Mignon McLaughlin

In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits. — Mignon McLaughlin

No woman wants to see herself too clearly. — Mignon McLaughlin

Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice. — Mignon McLaughlin

Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either. — Mignon McLaughlin

Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives. — Mignon McLaughlin

Nobody knows the trouble we've seen-but we keep trying to tell them. — Mignon McLaughlin

If you jot down every silly thought that pops into your mind, you will soon find out everything you most seriously believe. — Mignon McLaughlin

If you can tell anyone about it, it's not the worst thing you ever did. — Mignon McLaughlin

Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put. — Mignon McLaughlin

Never allow your current circumstances dictate your level of happiness! Remember that this too shall pass! Rejoice always! — Mignon' Talise Padilla

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping. — Mignon McLaughlin

Courage doesn't know what's around the corner, but goes around it anyway. — Mignon McLaughlin

There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults. — Mignon McLaughlin

Age is a slowing down of everything except fear. — Mignon McLaughlin

We often pray to be better, when in truth we only want to feel better. — Mignon McLaughlin

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him. — Mignon McLaughlin

When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say. — Mignon McLaughlin

The reality is that all God has to do is reveal himself to you,and you'll gladly join the mission in service to his kingdom. He doesn't force the issue; he just has to reveal himself as is: mighty,wondrous, gracious, loving, and radically saving. No man goes back to saltine crackers when he's had fillet mignon. — Matt Chandler

True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive. — Mignon McLaughlin

The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself. — Mignon McLaughlin

A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine. — Mignon McLaughlin

When we discuss those we love with those who do not love them, the end of love is near. — Mignon McLaughlin

The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it. — Mignon McLaughlin

The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so. — Mignon McLaughlin

Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix. — Mignon McLaughlin

Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness. — Mignon McLaughlin

Don't look for God where He is needed most; if you didn't bring Him there, He isn't there. — Mignon McLaughlin

We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy. — Mignon McLaughlin

When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy. — Mignon McLaughlin

Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk. — Mignon McLaughlin

Every now and then you run across radiantly attractive people and you're delighted to find they adore you, till you realize that they adore just about everybody- and that's what's made them radiantly attractive. — Mignon McLaughlin