Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.

It's still my happiest time when I'm eating.

I don't pretend to be happy all the time. I think to be human is to be happy and unhappy by turns. But I have a great capacity to enjoy myself, and it seems to grow as I get older.

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

I love food and I love living.

I've worked very hard, but my life's always been fun.

Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life.

I couldn't do anything I didn't enjoy.

Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.

I enjoy eating so much. I eat for happiness, fuel, and nourishment.

I think if you don't enjoy something, it's not sustainable.

There's something great about life when you can do something you enjoy.

I think if you were to ask me when I was much younger what my definition of the good life was, I think it would have sounded a lot like what most people would say - a life with all the things you want and everything you think you need to make you happy, and these sorts of things.

Sure, I eat because I have to. But I also eat because I want to. It is one of life's few pleasures.

Happiness is unrepented pleasure.

Pleasure usually comes when called, but not happiness.

What is wealth to me if I cannot enjoy it?

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

Fun is not the same thing as fulfillment.

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

You must do what you enjoy.

The best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

I think empathy is really important for pleasure.

The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.

It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.