Quotes from Mignon McLaughlin

Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money.

How strange that the young should always think the world is against them — when in fact that is the only time it is for them.

We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?

If you made a list of the 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.

Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men.

Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.

Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.

Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it.

Women go to beauty parlors for the unmussed look men hate.

If your husband expects you to laugh, do so; if he expects you to cry, don't; if you don't know what he expects, what are you doing married?

God is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects.

Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk.

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner.

How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him.

If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well.

Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.

Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.

You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.

We're seldom drawn to a character we admire; only to a personality we like.

"Your money, or your life." We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.

Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.

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

Despair is anger with no place to go.