Mignon McLaughlin: Trending quotes (page 9)

“Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone - until they do.”

Mignon McLaughlin

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

People

“In church, sacred music would make believers of us all—but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Music

“I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Perfection

“The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Learning

“Between two married couples there are five possibilities for friendship: man to man, woman to woman, each man to the woman not his wife, and couple to couple. It's seldom that more than two of these will actually materialize.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage

Friendship

“"Your money or your life." We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Life , Money , God

“Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily changing the position. Change "vertigo" to "anxiety," and you've summed up the neurotic's plight.”

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Change

“Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Money

“If you have to do it every day, for God’s sake learn to do it well.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

God , Learning

“There's little enough to be said for nationalism, so let's say it and have done.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“When a man comes to love a woman exactly as she had dreamed, she decides he is a weakling.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love

Love , Dreams

“The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“What you were sure of yesterday, you know now to be false, but what you are sure of today is absolutely true.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Falseness

“A childhood can be judged sheltered or not according to which was learned first, the four-letter word or the euphemism.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Learning , Childhood

“The time to begin most things is ten years ago.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Time

“Irrelevant things may happen to you, but once they have happened they all become relevant.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified