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
ships sinking
We semaphore from ship to ship, but they're sinking, too.
stalking caught creatures
Every creatures stalks some other, and catches it, and is caught.
mirrors hypocrisy childhood
Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.
cancer hard-work smoking
They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.
cigarette-smoke smoking i-can
To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work.
summer spring fall
Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.
mature-love mature
Elegimos aquellos que nos gusta, con los que amamos, no tenemos voz en el asunto.
sleep soul may
The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth.
delay diversion
Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.
tears minutes mere
Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.
body flesh goes-on
Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.
night silence
We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence.
each-day television might
Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he's covered with warts and is only after her money.
husband looks half
A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch.