Quote

Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.

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
Behinds
Behind
Leave
Philosophy
Either
Teach
Take
Teaches
Men
Taxes

More quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

Image
Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.
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
Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
If you jot down every silly thought that pops into your mind, you will soon find out everything you most seriously believe.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Things are never so bad that they can't get worse. But they're sometimes so bad they can't get better.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
A bore: one who knows as well as you do what he is going to say next.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.
Mignon McLaughlin