533 Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

Theatre audiences can’t be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel and cry.

The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive – perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.

Luck: when your burst of energy doesn’t run afoul of someone else’s.

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

Suburb: a place that isn’t city, isn’t country, and isn’t tolerable.

Courage can’t see around corners but goes around them anyway.

No matter how many Christmas presents you give your child, there’s always that terrible moment when he’s opened the very last one. That’s when he expects you to say, ‘Oh yes, I almost forgot,’ and take him out and show him the pony.

Most of us can easily do two things at once; what’s all but impossible is to do one thing at once.

If only we could be old and sick while we’re still young and healthy enough to put up with it!