Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Mignon McLaughlin
Mignon McLaughlin Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.
Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.
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.
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.
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.
Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter.
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
When the pressures really mount, the neurotic must choose: Shall he have a good cry, or set fire to his neighbor's house?
Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.
Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money.
Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.
Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.
I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.
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.
We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?
In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own.