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
pet one-day next
One day you are an apprentice, and everybody's pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming.
littles ready
Learn a little of anything, and you're ready to proselytize.
cash despise turns
Cash is the one gift everyone despises and no one turns down.
people advice wish
I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice.
vacation two firsts
The first two days of a vacation are endless; then it flies.
wire riding-a-bicycle talent
It's awesome to realize that if your greatest potential talent is for riding a bicycle upside down on a high wire, you will somehow discover it.
want
Nobody ever loved anybody like everybody wants to be loved.
rich pleasure poor
The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.
doe done harm
It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.
children trying enough
It's easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child - at least till you try to get him to do something.
people safe wonderful
It is always safe to tell people that they're looking wonderful.
giving-up self should-have
We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.
god mountain worship
We climb mountains because they are there, and worship God because He is not.
hate lying night
The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he loves.