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
littles too-much making-money
Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there's no such thing as exactly enough..
writing
Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.
philosophy men taxes
Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.
men looks care
Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.
men way down-and
Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible that both are right.
men years age
Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.
two impossible two-things
Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once.
entrepreneur succeed terror
We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.
past entrepreneur special
The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.
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.
greedy economy consumerism
Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.
fool irritated prepared
We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?
freedom want tyranny
We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"
sex sleep animal
Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.