Mignon McLaughlin (June 6, 1913 – December 20, 1983) was an American journalist and author.
The next voice you hear will undoubtedly be your own.
We climb mountains because they are there, and worship God because He is not.
Learn a little of anything, and you're ready to proselytize.
Cash is the one gift everyone despises and no one turns down.
It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.
There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.
It is always safe to tell people that they're looking wonderful.
Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.
Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.
Nobody knows the trouble we've seen-but we keep trying to tell them.
To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work.
I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice.
Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.
Things are never so bad that they can't get worse. But they're sometimes so bad they can't get better.
Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
Women who feel naked without their lipstick are well over thirty.
A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.
I've been hiding from God, and I'm appalled to find how easy it is.
There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.