Mignon McLaughlin Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Life, Night, Literature

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

• 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.

• A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Life, Laughter, Twilight

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.64, BookBaby

• Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Life, Materialism, Murphys Law

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.101, BookBaby

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

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Life, Dinner, Stuff

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

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Life, Writing, Novel

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.87, BookBaby

• Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Life, Blessing, Trying

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

• I tell you this, and I tell you plain: What you have done, you will do again; You will bite your tongue, careful or not, Upon the already-bitten spot.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Life, Tongue, Done

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.70, BookBaby

• Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Life, Believe, Puritan

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.95, BookBaby

• 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.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Life, Summer, People

• Many of us are equal to life's emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Life, Emergencies, Bears

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.69, BookBaby

• People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Life, People, Serious

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