Mignon McLaughlin quotes - page 7

Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing. View quote
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Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo. View quote
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A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine. View quote
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It's easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child–at least till you try to get him to do something. View quote
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We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence. View quote
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If it came true, it wasn't much of a dream. View quote
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A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him. View quote
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The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind. View quote
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If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate. View quote
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Women are good listeners, but it's a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there's something specific you want him to do. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets. View quote
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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. View quote
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The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all. View quote
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Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part, and does not believe in the play. View quote
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Age is a slowing down of everything except fear. View quote
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What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures. View quote
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How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him. View quote
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Revenge leads to an empty fullness, like eating dirt. View quote
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Good-looking girls break hearts, and good-hearted girls mend them. View quote
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In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own. (Mignon McLaughlin)
True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive. View quote
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Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God. View quote
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A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species. View quote
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A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. View quote
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