Mignon McLaughlin People Quotations

To talk easily with people, you must firmly believe that either you or they are interesting. And even then it's not easy.

The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.

I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice.

It is always safe to tell people that they're looking wonderful.

If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.

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.

Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.

Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.

Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways.

There are always a few people you do a lot for, and a few who do a lot for you, but they're not the same people.

A good executive is one who makes people contentedly settle for less than they meant to get, in return for more than they meant to give.

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.

We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture.

The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone — until they do.

People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.

People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way.

Forget about calories — everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter.

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.

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.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we count ourselves among them.