Mignon McLaughlin: Trending quotes

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage

For Wife , love , Relationship , Romantic

“It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

For Bestfriend , Friendship

“There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Youth

“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

Health

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

God , Mountain

“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

Pleasure

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Fish

“Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Pleasure , Food , Sex , Sleep

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love

Love

“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

“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

Heart

“The plague of government is senile delinquency.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel and cry.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Theater

Feeling , Thinking , Cry

“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

Childhood

“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

Business

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Reading

“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

“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

Love

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Lovers , Problem