Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

Mignon McLaughlin was an American journalist and author.

✵ 6. June 1913 – 20. December 1983
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Famous Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

“Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“We climb mountains because they are there, and worship God because He is not.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage

“The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Mignon McLaughlin Quotes about love

“Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love

“We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

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

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

“Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love

Mignon McLaughlin Quotes about women

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

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

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

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

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

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

“Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

“It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

Mignon McLaughlin: Trending quotes

“Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis

“As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis

Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

“Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“The plague of government is senile delinquency.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“Young lovers and young nations face the same problem: after orgasm, what?”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

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

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

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

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“There's no way to repay a mother's love, or lack of it.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“There are whole years for which I hope I’ll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“Sooner or later, they govern who are determined to.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to weave.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“Pull yourself together' is seldom said to anyone who can.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis

“Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“He's in for trouble—the man whose wife is detested by all women and desired by all men.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

“Nobody really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“Every group of six or more has its inner circle, its outer circle, and its hangers-on.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and difficult as that.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“Whether or not you love television, you've got to admit that it certainly loves itself.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love

“If you can tell anyone about it, it's not the worst thing you ever did.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“It is always safe to tell people that they’re looking wonderful.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis

“Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

“The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis

“Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love

“A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“Groups of girls are pretty, or not; they are seldom mixed.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis

“Being Irish is, no matter how real, a pose.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

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