Mignon McLaughlin Life Quotations

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.

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

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

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

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.