Quote

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.

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
Come
Cottages
Even
Provision
Make
Summer
Never
Short
Life
Stay
Like
Seem
People
Term
Lease
Seems
Provisions

More quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

Image
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
Image
Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Love requires a willingness to die marriage, a willingness to live.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Nobody knows the trouble we've seen-but we keep trying to tell them.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Every now and then you run across radiantly attractive people and you're delighted to find they adore you, till you realize that they adore just about everybody - and that's what's made them radiantly attractive.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
It's terrifying to see someone inside of whom a vital spring seems to have been broken. It's particularly terrifying to see him in your mirror.
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
We have to call it freedom: who'd want to die for a lesser tyranny
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
Image
Revenge leads to an empty fullness, like eating dirt.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.
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
Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.
Mignon McLaughlin