533 Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I’m ashamed of what I think of doctors in general.

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you’d have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

Fields can lie fallow but we can’t; we have less time.

As we are human, we can’t do what we can’t do; as we’re neurotic, we can’t do what we can.

Neurotics make poor patriots; if you’re ashamed of something as big as yourself, it’s hard to be proud of something as small as your country.

When hope is hungry, everything feeds it.

It’s easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child – at least till you try to get him to do something.

If you hate your lot but wouldn’t trade it, it’s not your lot you hate.

It’s terrifying to see someone inside of whom a vital spring seems to have been broken. It’s particularly terrifying to see him in your mirror.