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
effort wholeheartedly
What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.
broken-heart ache wounds
A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.
mom mother safe
The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones.
writing pages leafs
You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.
blessing trying life-is
Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.
land flying promise
Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.
time children years
Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.
pills medical hypochondriac
A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.
analysts psychiatry neurotic
The neurotic would like to trust his analyst - if only because he's paying him so much money. But he can't - because if the analyst really cared, he'd be doing it for nothing.
friendly tantrums doe
After he has had his tantrum, the neurotic expects those around him to feel friendly and relaxed; after all, he does.
enthusiasm vices virtue
Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.
writing
Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.
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.
demand doe making-money
Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.