Mignon McLaughlin citáty

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„Život, ktorý žijeme, mi pripomína parazita v črevách. Žijeme v tme a snažíme sa uzrieť svetlo tak, že vyjdeme von ústami. Ale akokoľvek sa snažíme, vždy nás niečím spláchnu a nakoniec vyjdeme von z opačnej strany. Ale svetlo už nevidíme.“

„Pre našich priateľov je dôležité, aby verili, že sme k nim bezvýhradne úprimní, a pre priateľstvo je dôležité, aby sme úprimnými neboli.“

“Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.”

“The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.”

“Bored with your present enemies? Make new ones! Tell two of your women friends that they look alike.”

“We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.”

“Air that has been much quarreled in becomes very hard to breathe.”

“What you can't get out of, get into whole-heartedly.”

“Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't.”

“Don't be yourself-be someone a little nicer.”

“We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.”

“Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible they are right.”

“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.”

“All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.”

“Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.”

“The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.”

“When a stranger identifies you from a friend's description, it's just as well you didn't hear the description.”

“If you had an unhappy childhood, you will always want to sleep late in the morning.”

“If you made a list of the reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.”

“Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.”

“Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.”

“The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.”

“Cash is the one gift everyone despises and no one turns down.”

“The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius.”

“Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.”

“If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors.”

“I do not trust those who are above name-dropping. The suppression of small vices always exacts too high a toll.”

“It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.”

“Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.”

“Others follow patterns; we alone are unpredictable.”

“Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls.”