Mignon McLaughlin: Trending quotes (page 5)

“Forget about calories - everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

People , Forgetting

“Any woman can talk herself into being in love with any man, for a while anyway.”

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Love

“We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Hostility

“The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport.”

Mignon McLaughlin

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

“Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.”

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Women , Beauty , Intelligence , Happiness

“Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways.”

Mignon McLaughlin

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

People , Way , Feeling

“Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest!”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Universe

“The family unit is man's noblest device for being bored.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Family

“If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Water , Personality , Night

“How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage

Girl

“There’s nothing wrong with most men’s egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can’t cure.”

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Men

“Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.”

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Sex

“The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Youth , Soul , Sleep , Happiness

“Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.”

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Life , Dreams , Suicide

“Anything you do from the heart enriches you, but sometimes not till years later.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Heart

“An attractive woman likes feminine company until she's twenty, and after she's twenty-five.”

Mignon McLaughlin

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

“After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage!”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage

Wedding , Love , Marriage

“If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they'll stop making it tomorrow; if it's all three, they stopped making it yesterday.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.”

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Women