Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
Who is Mignon McLaughlin?
| Born | June 06, 1913 |
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| Died | December 20, 1983 |
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Best 37 Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin | Page 1 of 2
“A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.”
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
“An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.”
“Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.”
“Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.”
“Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.”
“Don't be yourself. Be someone a little nicer.”
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“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”
“Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors.”
“For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.”
“If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.”
“It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.”
“It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.”
“Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe in the play.”
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“Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls.”
“Most of us would rather risk a catastrophe than read the instructions.”
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“Lesbians don’t have relationships. They have extended emotional chess games where every piece is a pawn.”
“No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.”
“Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.”
“Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.”
“The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.”
“The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.”
“The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.”
“There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.”
“True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.”
“We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.”
“With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.”
“Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.”
“It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.”
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The Complete Neurotic's Notebook Quotes
“A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.”
“Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.”
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“Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent, came to teach the ancient inhabitants of Mexico the benefits of settled agriculture and the skills necessary to build temples. Although this deity is frequently depicted as a serpent, he is more often shown in human form – the serpent being his symbol and his alter ego – and is usually described as a tall bearded white man, a mysterious person, a white man with a strong formation of body, broad forehead, large eyes and a flowing beard.
Indeed, the attributes and life history of Quetzalcoatl are so human that it is not improbable that he may have been an actual historical character the memory of whose benefactions lingered after his death, and whose personality was eventually deified.
The same could very well be said of Oannes – and just like Oannes at the head of the Apkallu (likewise depicted as prominently bearded) it seems that Quetzalcoatl traveled with his own brotherhood of sages and magicians. We learn that they arrived in Mexico 'from across the sea in a boat that moved by itself without paddles', and that Quetzalcoatl was regarded as having been 'the founder of cities, the framer of laws and the teacher of the calendar'.”
