Quote

We semaphore from ship to ship, but they're sinking, too.

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
Sinking
Ship
Ships

More quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

Image
Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Acedia is not in every dictionary just in every heart.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Money: in its absence, we are coarse in its presence, we are vulgar.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
People keep telling us about their love affairs, when what we really want to know is how much money they make and how they manage on it.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
A doctor recently described to me benign positional vertigo: it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily changing the position. Change vertigo to anxiety, and you've summed up the neurotic's plight.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Women are the right age for just a few years men, for most of their lives.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
I wish I'd said it first, and I don't even know who did: The only problems that money can solve are money problems.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Everybody can write writers can't do anything else.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
No one ever loved anyone the way that person wanted to be loved.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Every creature stalks some other, catches it, and is caught.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he's covered with warts and is only after her money.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic.
Mignon McLaughlin