Quote

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.

Mignon McLaughlin

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mignon McLaughlin
Age: 70 †
Born: 1913
Born: June 6
Died: 1983
Died: December 20
Journalist
Writer
the United States of America
Religion
Many
Inept
Memorable
Saved
Sin

More quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

Image
A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
One day you are an apprentice, and everybody's pet the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Healthy parakeets have the nervous energy of tennis players.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope winter alone reminds us of the human condition.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Neurotic quarrels always have the same theme-song: Hate me and get it over with.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Hot dogs always seem better out than at home so do French-fried potatoes so do your children.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
It is always safe to tell people that they're looking wonderful.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
When the pressures really mount, the neurotic must choose: Shall he have a good cry, or set fire to his neighbor's house?
Mignon McLaughlin