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
Mignon McLaughlin quotes about
done best-work seems
Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else.
figures
A woman will do anything to keep a pretty figure, but hardly anything to get one.
eye glimpse hostile
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
dream goal ifs
If it came true, it wasn't much of a dream.
money husband sacrifice
A woman's mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband.
anxiety coward chances-are
The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.
prayer listening phrases
I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.
money speak
When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say.
emotional pay bills
The neurotic doesn't know how to cope with his emotional bills; some he keeps paying over and over, others he never pays at all.
affair love-affair neurotic
At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.
money wish firsts
I wish I'd said it first, and I don't even know who did: The only problems that money can solve are money problems.
neurotic humans
As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can.
enemy devil common
God and the devil lose to a common enemy: inertia.
airports circles neurotic
The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport.