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
change moving-forward pay-the-price
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
money people literature
There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.
worry anxiety anxious
If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.
love relationship valentines-day
Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.
atheist literature sound
Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.
wisdom ignorance purity-and-innocence
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
best-love women heart
The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
heart writing joy
The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.
friendship believe real-friends
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
yesterday three tomorrow
If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they'll stop making it tomorrow; if it's all three, they stopped making it yesterday.
confidence being-yourself anxiety
Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.
being-yourself kindness compassion
Don't be yourself. Be someone a little nicer.
confidence mark wells
Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.
girl men wind
How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born.