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.“

“When a woman reaches forty, she must wait twenty years for her husband to catch up.”

“True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive.”

“Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God.”

“A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.”

“When we have been humiliated by someone we love, it takes all our strength to pretend to recover from it.”

“Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity and always its result.”

“A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.”

“The way the neurotic sees it: bars on his door mean that he's locked in; bars on your door mean that he's locked out.”

“I am as I am" is another way of saying "I can do without your love.”

“Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.”

“Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.”

“Insult, not flattery, is the great aphrodisiac.”

“I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine.”

“Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.”

“Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.”

“Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.”

“In the theatre, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.”

“Between a man and a woman both aged fifty there are two full generations, for she might well wed a man in his seventies, and he a girl of twenty.”

“We have to call it "freedom": who'd die for "a lesser tyranny?"”

“When children are bored, it reflects on us all.”

“Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.”

“A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.”

“The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.”

“The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.”

“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”

“Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.”

“We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.”

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

“Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.”