Mignon McLaughlin Quotes About Life
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I tell you this, and I tell you plain: What you have done, you will do again; You will bite your tongue, careful or not, Upon the already-bitten spot.
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A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
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Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you.
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People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.
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The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
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In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner.
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Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.
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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.
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Many of us are equal to life's emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness.
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For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
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Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.
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Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.
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