533 Quotes by 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.

What you can’t get out of, get into wholeheartedly.

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.

We semaphore from ship to ship, but they’re sinking, too.

Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he’s going to cut it in half anyway.

There are whole years for which I hope I’ll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.

Pessimism is like optimism, only less dangerous.

If your husband expects you to laugh, do so; if he expects you to cry, don’t; if you don’t know what he expects, what are you doing married?