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God is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects.
— Mignon McLaughlin
I've been hiding from God, and I'm appalled to find how easy it is.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Always live up to your standards - by lowering them, if necessary.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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
Mama does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Dada first.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Don't ask others to forgive in you a sin they're dying to commit themselves.
— Mignon McLaughlin
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
— Mignon McLaughlin
It must infuriate our children to see us always so much more forbearing with everybody else's.
— Mignon McLaughlin
We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.
— Mignon McLaughlin
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
— Mignon McLaughlin
With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins.
— Mignon McLaughlin
We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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
Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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
Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it.
— Mignon McLaughlin
It's easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child - at least till you try to get him to do something.
— Mignon McLaughlin
The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about.
— Mignon McLaughlin
We're seldom drawn to a character we admire; only to a personality we like.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.
— Mignon McLaughlin
In church, sacred music would make believers of us all - but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.
— Mignon McLaughlin
The next voice you hear will undoubtedly be your own.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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
Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.
— Mignon McLaughlin
True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.
— Mignon McLaughlin
The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Anything you do from the heart enriches you, but sometimes not till years later.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart.
— Mignon McLaughlin
After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage.
— Mignon McLaughlin
It's awesome to realize that if your greatest potential talent is for riding a bicycle upside down on a high wire, you will somehow discover it.
— Mignon McLaughlin
We climb mountains because they are there, and worship God because He is not.
— Mignon McLaughlin
As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can.
— Mignon McLaughlin
If the second marriage really succeeds, the first one didn't really fail.
— Mignon McLaughlin
What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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
The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.
— Mignon McLaughlin
The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.
— Mignon McLaughlin
A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.
— Mignon McLaughlin
I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Contemplating the misfortunes of others does not lighten one's own trouble but instead adds to it.
— Mignon G. Eberhart
Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar.
— Mignon McLaughlin
People keep telling us about their love affairs, when what we really want to know is how much money they make and how they manage on it.
— Mignon McLaughlin
A request not to worry is perhaps the least soothing message capable of human utterance.
— Mignon G. Eberhart
We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"
— Mignon McLaughlin
Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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
I can and I will! Just watch me!
— Mignon' Talise Padilla
There are always a few people you do a lot for, and a few who do a lot for you, but they're not the same people.
— Mignon McLaughlin
No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.
— Mignon McLaughlin
No woman wants to see herself too clearly.
— Mignon McLaughlin
When hope is hungry, everything feeds it
— Mignon McLaughlin
What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.
— Mignon McLaughlin
The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me.
— Mignon McLaughlin
If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all
— Mignon McLaughlin
If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.
— Mignon McLaughlin
We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.
— Mignon McLaughlin
God doesn't measure His bounty, but oh how we do!
— Mignon McLaughlin
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.
— Mignon McLaughlin
You never realize how tacky your furniture is till you try to give it to the Salvation Army and they won't take it.
— Mignon McLaughlin
I wish I'd said it first, and I don't even know who did: The only problems that money can solve are money problems.
— Mignon McLaughlin
I know which side my bread is buttered on: the side which falls on the carpet.
— Mignon McLaughlin
When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.
— Mignon McLaughlin
If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.
— Mignon McLaughlin
The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Now filet mignon come with every meal. I swear to God that I'm so high, Feel like i am going up a hill.
— Wiz Khalifa
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
— Mignon McLaughlin
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
— Mignon McLaughlin
It is always safe to tell people that they're looking wonderful.
— Mignon McLaughlin
We can never at any time absorb more love than we're ready for.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.
— Mignon McLaughlin
The trouble with women is men; the trouble with men, men.
— Mignon McLaughlin
I have no religion, for I have spent too many years eating from the tree of knowledge.
— Mignon Ariel King
My thoughts, I guess, are bitter: who but the bitter have thoughts?
— Mignon McLaughlin
We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.
— Mignon McLaughlin
You are fearfully and wonderfully made...don't let anyone tell you different...not even yourself!
— Mignon' Talise Padilla
Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.
— Mignon McLaughlin
I seat myself at the typewriter and hope, and lurk.
— Mignon G. Eberhart
The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.
— Mignon McLaughlin
