Quotes from Mignon McLaughlin

Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed.

The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.

Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.

We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter.

We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.

If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.

In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.

Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.

Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.

Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.

Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.

What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.

It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.

We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay.

After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6º of marriage!

Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.

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

God doesn't measure His bounty, but oh how we do!

To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work.

Anywhere you go liking everyone, everyone will be likeable.

Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.

I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and put them in my mouth.