533 Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

It’s impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.

An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners’ names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.

Be glad that you’re greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren’t.

The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn’t even know they carried.

The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They’re talking about me.

Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren’t even good for you.

A woman’s mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband.

What we forgive too freely doesn’t stay forgiven.

If you’re a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject.