Mignon McLaughlin Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Life, Marriage

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Generosity, Giving, Reputation

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.96, BookBaby

• A good executive is one who makes people contentedly settle for less than they meant to get, in return for more than they meant to give.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  People, Giving, Return

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.96, BookBaby

• We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Giving Up, Self, Should Have

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.57, BookBaby

• There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Time, Years, Giving

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

• My religious position: I think that God could do a lot better, and I'm willing to give Him the chance.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Religious, Thinking, Giving

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.93, BookBaby

• When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Giving Up, Democracy, Firsts

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

• Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Beauty, Giving, Joy

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.13, BookBaby

• No matter how many Christmas presents you give your child, there's always that terrible moment when he's opened the very last one. That's when he expects you to say, 'Oh yes, I almost forgot,' and take him out and show him the pony.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Christmas, Children, Giving

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