533 Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

Healthy parakeets have the nervous energy of tennis players.

One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.

The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.

My thoughts, I guess, are bitter: who but the bitter have thoughts?

We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.

When the pressures really mount, the neurotic must choose: Shall he have a good cry, or set fire to his neighbor's house?

Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.

A bore: one who knows as well as you do what he is going to say next.

Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.