Mignon McLaughlin: Trending quotes (page 10)

“The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Heart

“Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.”

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Sleep , Time

“No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love

Love , Way

“For the happiest life, days should he rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Life , Chance , Night

“The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

History

“All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.”

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Women , Men

“Charity is a good way of reminding God that if we can do it, He can.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

God , Way

“It is a feeling at once stimulating and flat, to know that someone you do not love is in love with you.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love

Love , Feeling

“We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Love , Fools

“We hear only half of what is said to us, understand only half of that, believe only half of that, and remember only half of that.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Understanding

“Most sermons sound to me like commercials — but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

God

“Most women would like to dress imaginatively, but they glare at any woman who does.”

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Women , Imagination

“I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Life , People

“The neurotic doesn't know how to cope with his emotional bills; some he keeps paying over and over, others he never pays at all.”

Mignon McLaughlin

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

“Despair is anger with no place to go.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Despair , Anger

“Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.”

Mignon McLaughlin

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

“Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“On stage and off, we care what happens to a beautiful woman, whether she can act well or not.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Beauty

“No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.”

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Indecision

“There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human beings like that.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified