Mignon McLaughlin
Mignon McLaughlin
Mignon McLaughlinwas an American journalist and author. In the 1950s, she began publishing aphorisms that were later collected in three books, entitled, The Neurotic’s Notebook, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook and The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook. She is known for a number of quotes, among them:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth6 June 1913
CountryUnited States of America
health sick enough
If only we could be old and sick while we're still young and healthy enough to put up with it!
heart passion years
Anything you do from the heart enriches you, but sometimes not till years later.
kindness people
There are always a few people you do a lot for, and a few who do a lot for you, but they're not the same people.
get-better sometimes
Things are never so bad that they can't get worse. But they're sometimes so bad they can't get better.
men listening want
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.
giving people return
A good executive is one who makes people contentedly settle for less than they meant to get, in return for more than they meant to give.
purpose helping manners
We cough because we can't help it, but others do it on purpose.
people want affair
People keep telling us about their love affairs, when what we really want to know is how much money they make and how they manage on it.
long neurotic plenty
Neurotics have plenty of non-neurotic friends, but not for long.
night may toil
At night, neurotics may toil not, but oh how they spin!
analysts psychiatry neurotic
The neurotic would like to trust his analyst - if only because he's paying him so much money. But he can't - because if the analyst really cared, he'd be doing it for nothing.
people furniture motive
We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture.
hero sense-of-humor villain
In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.
believe neurotic
The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.