Mignon McLaughlinThinkers

Alcohol is a stuff chiefly taken out of a desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it thereon.

Anxiety is absent a clear object to which it is directed. If we know what we are anxious about, we wouldn't be so anxious.

Anxiety is all-consuming. While love looks forward and hate looks back, it has eyes all over its head.

A Bore is one who knows as well as you do what he is going to say next.

Crying is always close at hand for women. They are never landlocked, for they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.

Desire is always a rage.

Flirtation is a talent where, if one is gifted enough, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject.

A Home is ideally big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.

Hope is hungry, for everything feeds it.

Hope is not permanent.

Love is contrasted with marriage in that love requires a willingness to die whereas marriage requires a willingness to live.