Quotes By Mignon McLaughlin

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

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

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.

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

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.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.

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

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

Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

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.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.