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.“

“If the second marriage really succeeds, the first one didn't really fail.”

“Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice.”

“A young woman can live off the folly of men; a man of any age can live off the folly of women.”

“Mama does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Dada first.”

“My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I’m ashamed of what I think of doctors in general.”

“Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.”

“The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself.”

“Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.”

“Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us.”

“Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.”

“The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone - until they do.”

“In church, sacred music would make believers of us all—but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.”

“I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.”

“Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.”

“The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.”

“Between two married couples there are five possibilities for friendship: man to man, woman to woman, each man to the woman not his wife, and couple to couple. It's seldom that more than two of these will actually materialize.”

“"Your money or your life." We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.”

“Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.”

“A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily changing the position. Change "vertigo" to "anxiety," and you've summed up the neurotic's plight.”

“Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.”

“If you have to do it every day, for God’s sake learn to do it well.”

“There's little enough to be said for nationalism, so let's say it and have done.”

“When a man comes to love a woman exactly as she had dreamed, she decides he is a weakling.”

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

“What you were sure of yesterday, you know now to be false, but what you are sure of today is absolutely true.”

“A childhood can be judged sheltered or not according to which was learned first, the four-letter word or the euphemism.”

“The time to begin most things is ten years ago.”

“Irrelevant things may happen to you, but once they have happened they all become relevant.”

“What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us.”