Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.
Mignon McLaughlin
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Mignon McLaughlin
Age: 70 †
Born: 1913
Born: June 6
Died: 1983
Died: December 20
Journalist
Writer
the United States of America
Kindness
Always
Terms
Compassion
Term
Peace
War
Else
Prefer
Someone
More quotes by Mignon McLaughlin
We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
Mignon McLaughlin
If your husband expects you to laugh, do so if he expects you to cry, don't if you don't know what he expects, what are you doing married?
Mignon McLaughlin
A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love.
Mignon McLaughlin
The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones.
Mignon McLaughlin
There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.
Mignon McLaughlin
The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried.
Mignon McLaughlin
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
Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.
Mignon McLaughlin
If you jot down every silly thought that pops into your mind, you will soon find out everything you most seriously believe.
Mignon McLaughlin
In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.
Mignon McLaughlin
Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.
Mignon McLaughlin
Love requires a willingness to die marriage, a willingness to live.
Mignon McLaughlin
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
Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.
Mignon McLaughlin
In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else but our defeats are uniquely our own.
Mignon McLaughlin
There are always a few people you do a lot for, and a few who do a lot for you, but they're not the same people.
Mignon McLaughlin
In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.
Mignon McLaughlin
If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else.
Mignon McLaughlin
Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity, and always its result.
Mignon McLaughlin
The neurotic would like to trust his analyst - if only because he's paying him so much money. But he can't - because if the analyst really cared, he'd be doing it for nothing.
Mignon McLaughlin