533 Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

Forget about calories – everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter.

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you’ll see why.

How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he’s going to wind up wanting hasn’t even been born.

I wish I’d said it first, and I don’t even know who did: The only problems that money can solve are money problems.

I’m afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can’t stop competing; otherwise I’m fine.

It must infuriate our children to see us always so much more forbearing with everybody else’s.

If it came true, it wasn’t much of a dream.

Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what’s missing.

The neurotic’s strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.