“We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. People might not return it; or worse, they might.”

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. People might not return it; or worse, they might." by Mignon McLaughlin?
Mignon McLaughlin photo
Mignon McLaughlin 278
American journalist 1913–1983

Related quotes

Miranda July photo

“Then I realized that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before we ask someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Source: The First Bad Man

Frank Bruno photo
Terry Goodkind photo
Margaret Thatcher photo
Oscar Wilde photo

“There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Variant: There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

George Sarton photo

“There are two kinds of people in the world, whom we might dub the jobholders and the enthusiasts.”

George Sarton (1884–1956) American historian of science

Preface.
A History of Science Vol.1 Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece (1952)
Context: There are two kinds of people in the world, whom we might dub the jobholders and the enthusiasts.... The majority of the kings and emperors were jobholders and so were many of the popes.... Most of the creators in the field of art and religion, and many of them in the field of science, were enthusiasts. Now economic conditions may deeply affect the jobs and the jobholders, but they make little impression on the enthusiasts.... the jobholders... keep things going with enough continuity and smoothness; they are the builders of usages and customs, the defenders of morality and justice.... the enthusiasts... are the main instruments of change and progress; they are the real creators and troublemakers. The enthusiasts are the salt of the earth, but man cannot live by salt alone.

George Eliot photo
Joseph Joubert photo
Paulo Coelho photo
Donald J. Trump photo

Related topics