533 Quotes by 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.

Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.

As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.

There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved.

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.

Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.

In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.

The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about.

Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.