533 Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.

It must infuriate our children to see us always so much more forbearing with everybody else's.

Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else.

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it

Don't ask others to forgive in you a sin they're dying to commit themselves.

If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well.

A woman will do anything to keep a pretty figure, but hardly anything to get one.

Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't.

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.