Mignon McLaughlin: Trending quotes (page 2)

“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

People , Time

“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

Women , Men

“There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Children , Nature , Time

“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

Love , Hate , Thinking , Night

“No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love

Love , Understanding , Time

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

People

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Love , Way

“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

Hope

“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

Feeling

“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

Money , People , Personality

“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

Hope , Spring , Winter , Summer

“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

Love , Nature

“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

God , Thinking , Chance

“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

Feeling

“Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.”

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Women , Men