533 Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

Things are never so bad that they can’t get worse. But they’re sometimes so bad they can’t get better.

To talk easily with people, you must firmly believe that either you or they are interesting. And even then it’s not easy.

The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother’s Day are the good ones.

Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn’t have it any other way.

If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they’ll stop making it tomorrow; if it’s all three, they stopped making it yesterday.

A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn’t love.

If the second marriage really succeeds, the first one didn’t really fail.

It is always safe to tell people that they’re looking wonderful.

We have to call it “freedom”: who’d want to die for “a lesser tyranny”