Top 100 Quotes About Mignon
#2. Things are never so bad that they can't get worse. But they're sometimes so bad they can't get better.
Mignon McLaughlin
#5. Every creatures stalks some other, and catches it, and is caught.
Mignon McLaughlin
#6. Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.
Mignon McLaughlin
#7. When "Why not do it?" barely outweighs "Why do it?" - don't do it.
Mignon McLaughlin
#8. Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.
Mignon McLaughlin
#9. Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.
Mignon McLaughlin
#11. It's terrifying to see someone inside of whom a vital spring seems to have been broken. It's particularly terrifying to see him in your mirror.
Mignon McLaughlin
#12. Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had
Mignon McLaughlin
#13. It must infuriate our children to see us always so much more forbearing with everybody else's.
Mignon McLaughlin
#14. We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.
Mignon McLaughlin
#16. A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.
Mignon McLaughlin
#18. The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.
Mignon McLaughlin
#19. No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.
Mignon McLaughlin
#21. Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.
Mignon McLaughlin
#22. The hibachi is coming to a city near you. I'm cooking chicken and shrimp, but if you want to throw a double team my way, filet mignon gets cooked too
Gilbert Arenas
#23. We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.
Mignon McLaughlin
#24. So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn't, He is behaving like God.
Mignon McLaughlin
#25. It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?
Mignon McLaughlin
#26. I would give up, but that will teach my kids that it's okay to be a failure and I refuse to ruin their lives like that!
Mignon' Talise Padilla
#27. We often pray to be better, when in truth we only want to feel better.
Mignon McLaughlin
#29. Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.
Mignon McLaughlin
#30. 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
#31. No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
Mignon McLaughlin
#32. The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me.
Mignon McLaughlin
#33. If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.
Mignon McLaughlin
#34. Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.
Mignon McLaughlin
#35. Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.
Mignon McLaughlin
#36. I tell you this, and I tell you plain
What you have done, you will do again
You will bite your tongue, careful or not
Upon the already-bitten spot
Mignon McLaughlin
#37. Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once.
Mignon McLaughlin
#40. Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you.
Mignon McLaughlin
#41. Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children.
Mignon McLaughlin
#42. Neurotic quarrels always have the same theme-song: Hate me and get it over with.
Mignon McLaughlin
#43. Contemplating the misfortunes of others does not lighten one's own trouble but instead adds to it.
Mignon G. Eberhart
#44. I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.
Mignon McLaughlin
#45. Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.
Mignon McLaughlin
#46. Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else.
Mignon McLaughlin
#47. My thoughts, I guess, are bitter: who but the bitter have thoughts?
Mignon McLaughlin
#48. At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.
Mignon McLaughlin
#49. Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.
Mignon McLaughlin
#50. Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.
Mignon McLaughlin
#52. Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed.
Mignon McLaughlin
#55. Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English.
Mignon McLaughlin
#56. There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Mignon McLaughlin
#57. In church, sacred music would make believers of us all - but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.
Mignon McLaughlin
#58. I know which side my bread is buttered on: the side which falls on the carpet.
Mignon McLaughlin
#59. Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke.
Mignon McLaughlin
#60. There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.
Mignon McLaughlin
#61. How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born.
Mignon McLaughlin
#62. Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way.
Mignon McLaughlin
#63. 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.
Mignon McLaughlin
#67. The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match.
Mignon McLaughlin
#68. In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Mignon McLaughlin
#69. Many of us are equal to life's emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness.
Mignon McLaughlin
#70. Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.
Mignon McLaughlin
#71. Nothing could make me pull away meat-market love goddess. My sexy little filet mignon
John Corwin
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. God is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects.
Mignon McLaughlin
#75. We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.
Mignon McLaughlin
#76. We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.
Mignon McLaughlin
#77. A request not to worry is perhaps the least soothing message capable of human utterance.
Mignon G. Eberhart
#78. We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?
Mignon McLaughlin
#79. Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar.
Mignon McLaughlin
#80. In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.
Mignon McLaughlin
#82. Don't ask others to forgive in you a sin they're dying to commit themselves.
Mignon McLaughlin
#83. People are like birds: on the wing, all beautiful; up close, all beady little eyes.
Mignon McLaughlin
#84. 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
#86. 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
#87. A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love.
Mignon McLaughlin
#89. We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.
Mignon McLaughlin
#90. Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.
Mignon McLaughlin
#91. We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"
Mignon McLaughlin
#94. All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.
Mignon McLaughlin
#95. An artist usually has no friends except other artists, and usually they do not like his work.
Mignon McLaughlin
#97. My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I'm ashamed of what I think of doctors in general.
Mignon McLaughlin
#98. It is always safe to tell people that they're looking wonderful.
Mignon McLaughlin
#99. Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it.
Mignon McLaughlin
#100. It's wonderful to watch a pretty woman with character grow beautiful.
Mignon McLaughlin
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