Mignon McLaughlin quotes - page 8

The way the neurotic sees it: bars on his door mean that he's locked in; bars on your door mean that he's locked out. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere. View quote
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Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix. View quote
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I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine. View quote
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Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something. View quote
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Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun. View quote
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Anything you lose automatically doubles in value. View quote
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Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty. View quote
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The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well. View quote
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Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality. View quote
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We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle. View quote
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Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once. View quote
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Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality. View quote
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Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves. View quote
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I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice. View quote
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It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time. View quote
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One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week. View quote
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There's no way to repay a mother's love, or lack of it. View quote
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One day you are an apprentice, and everybody's pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming. View quote
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We have to call it "freedom": who'd die for "a lesser tyranny"? (Mignon McLaughlin)
If you can tell anyone about it, it's not the worst thing you ever did. View quote
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My religious position: I think that God could do a lot better, and I'm willing to give Him the chance. View quote
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"Your money or your life." We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does. View quote
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The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried. View quote
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