Quotes from Mignon McLaughlin

There's no way to repay a mother's love, or lack of it.

At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.

We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

When first we fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.

Elegimos aquellos que nos gusta, con los que amamos, no tenemos voz en el asunto.

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"

We often pray to be better, when in truth we only want to feel better.

Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway.

It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to our friendship that we are not.

People keep telling us about their love affairs, when what we really want to know is how much money they make and how they manage on it.

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

Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.

We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show.

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

A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.

A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough.

What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.

Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.

What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures.

After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage.