Mignon McLaughlin: Trending quotes (page 11)

“Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Soul

“One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Love , Life , Pleasure , Family

“The mark of the neurotic: to imagine that you're the only one who cares deeply for anything.”

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Imagination

“Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

God

“The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.”

Mignon McLaughlin

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

“A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.”

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Love , Feeling

“It’s easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child–at least till you try to get him to do something.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Love

“We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Silence , Night

“People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fiber called courage.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

People , Courage

“No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Idea

“If it came true, it wasn’t much of a dream.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Dreams

“A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“Neurotics make poor patriots; if you're ashamed of something as big as yourself, it's hard to be proud of something as small as your country.”

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Country

“The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love

Love , People , Learning

“If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Hate

“Women are good listeners, but it’s a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there’s something specific you want him to do.”

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Women , Time

“There’s an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Water

“We all dream of being the darling of everybody's darling.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Dreams

“Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.”

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Love , Women , Hate