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
indecisive difficult neurotic
No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.
time pain health
If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors.
time children memorable
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
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.
time procrastination years
The time to begin most things is ten years ago.
kindness war compassion
We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.
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.
greedy economy consumerism
Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.
outlets shopkeepers goods
Goods are displayed by thousands of shopkeepers with a sense of beauty that finds no other outlet.
bitterness bitter my-thoughts
My thoughts, I guess, are bitter: who but the bitter have thoughts?
world-suffering religion forget
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
kindness people
There are always a few people you do a lot for, and a few who do a lot for you, but they're not the same people.