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
soul bypass confession
Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.
hate winning fine
I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine.
hate golden neighbor
The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself.
indecisive difficult neurotic
No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.
loneliness insomnia reality
Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.
fun children real
Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.
time pain health
If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors.
happy pieces what-is-happiness
We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.
women littles able
A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.
courage cancer matter
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
risk catastrophe
Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions....
teenage thinking teens
How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them.
family understanding bitterness
Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.
fairy exciting tooth-fairy
Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.