Mignon McLaughlin quotes - page 11

If you had an unhappy childhood, you will always want to sleep late in the morning. (Mignon McLaughlin)
I do not trust those who are above name-dropping. The suppression of small vices always exacts too high a toll. View quote
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We tell our children things which we know are not so, but which we wish were so. View quote
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A young woman can live off the folly of men; a man of any age can live off the folly of women. View quote
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Between two married couples there are five possibilities for friendship: man to man, woman to woman, each man to the woman not his wife, and couple to couple. It's seldom that more than two of these will actually materialize. View quote
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When a man comes to love a woman exactly as she had dreamed, she decides he is a weakling. View quote
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What you were sure of yesterday, you know now to be false, but what you are sure of today is absolutely true. View quote
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A childhood can be judged sheltered or not according to which was learned first, the four-letter word or the euphemism. View quote
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Irrelevant things may happen to you, but once they have happened they all become relevant. View quote
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Charity is a good way of reminding God that if we can do it, He can. View quote
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It is a feeling at once stimulating and flat, to know that someone you do not love is in love with you. (Mignon McLaughlin)
We hear only half of what is said to us, understand only half of that, believe only half of that, and remember only half of that. View quote
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Most women would like to dress imaginatively, but they glare at any woman who does. View quote
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On stage and off, we care what happens to a beautiful woman, whether she can act well or not. View quote
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The mark of the neurotic: to imagine that you're the only one who cares deeply for anything. View quote
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People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fiber called courage. View quote
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Did that leave an undesirable taste in your mouth? Let's take a swig. View quote
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Injure a businessman and he'll try to make you sorry; injure an artist and he'll try to make you immortal. View quote
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Money is the best counterfeit money. View quote
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When a woman reaches forty, she must wait twenty years for her husband to catch up. View quote
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When we have been humiliated by someone we love, it takes all our strength to pretend to recover from it. (Mignon McLaughlin)
I am as I am" is another way of saying "I can do without your love. View quote
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Insult, not flattery, is the great aphrodisiac. View quote
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Between a man and a woman both aged fifty there are two full generations, for she might well wed a man in his seventies, and he a girl of twenty. View quote
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When children are bored, it reflects on us all. View quote
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