Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

Mignon McLaughlin was an American journalist and author.

✵ 6. June 1913 – 20. December 1983
Mignon McLaughlin: 278 quotes8 likes

Famous Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Mignon McLaughlin Quotes about love

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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.”

Mignon McLaughlin

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.”

Mignon McLaughlin

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.”

Mignon McLaughlin

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.”

Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Mignon McLaughlin: Trending quotes

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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.”

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“The plague of government is senile delinquency.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins.”

Mignon McLaughlin

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

“The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he loves.”

Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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.”

Mignon McLaughlin

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.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“An artist is a socially unattractive person whom socially attractive people make money out of.”

Mignon McLaughlin

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.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.”

Mignon McLaughlin

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.”

Mignon McLaughlin

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

“My religious position: I think that God could do a lot better, and I'm willing to give Him the chance.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match.”

Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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.”

Mignon McLaughlin

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.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting that we have just had one.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

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