Mignon McLaughlin was an American journalist and author who wrote The Neurotic's Notebook, a collection of essays and aphorisms about life and love. She was known for her honest, humorous and sometimes cynical reflections on modern life, and her work was widely published in magazines and newspapers. McLaughlin was a popular figure in the 1950s and 1960s, and her work was later collected in several books. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Mignon McLaughlin on education, life, love.
We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy. — Mignon McLaughlin
If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you. — Mignon McLaughlin
Mignon McLaughlin Quotes About Price
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. — Mignon McLaughlin
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer. — Mignon McLaughlin
If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject. — Mignon McLaughlin
Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. — Mignon McLaughlin
Mignon McLaughlin Quotes About People
We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still. — Mignon McLaughlin
If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed. — Mignon McLaughlin
Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards. — Mignon McLaughlin
Every now and then you run across radiantly attractive people and you're delighted to find they adore you, till you realize that they adore just about everybody - and that's what's made them radiantly attractive. — Mignon McLaughlin
We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture. — Mignon McLaughlin
There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them. — Mignon McLaughlin
The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone - until they do. — Mignon McLaughlin
Forget about calories - everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter. — Mignon McLaughlin
Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways. — Mignon McLaughlin
It is always safe to tell people that they're looking wonderful. — Mignon McLaughlin
Mignon McLaughlin Famous Quotes And Sayings
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change. — Mignon McLaughlin
Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite. — Mignon McLaughlin
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. — Mignon McLaughlin
The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime. — Mignon McLaughlin
Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is. — Mignon McLaughlin
Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible that both are right. — Mignon McLaughlin
Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence. — Mignon McLaughlin
Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain. — Mignon McLaughlin
I wish I'd said it first, and I don't even know who did: The only problems that money can solve are money problems. — Mignon McLaughlin
Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product. — Mignon McLaughlin
Goods are displayed by thousands of shopkeepers with a sense of beauty that finds no other outlet. — Mignon McLaughlin
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not. — Mignon McLaughlin
What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us. — Mignon McLaughlin
Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity, and always its result. — Mignon McLaughlin
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show. — Mignon McLaughlin
Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else. — Mignon McLaughlin
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. — Mignon McLaughlin
The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well. — Mignon McLaughlin
Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news. — Mignon McLaughlin
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. — Mignon McLaughlin
With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it. — Mignon McLaughlin
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today. — Mignon McLaughlin
Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway. — Mignon McLaughlin
When "Why not do it?" barely outweighs "Why do it?" — don't do it. — Mignon McLaughlin
If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping. — Mignon McLaughlin
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. — Mignon McLaughlin
There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure. — Mignon McLaughlin
We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty. — Mignon McLaughlin
God doesn't measure His bounty, but oh how we do! — Mignon McLaughlin
In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits. — Mignon McLaughlin
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one. — Mignon McLaughlin
The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine. — Mignon McLaughlin
A new wound makes all the old ones ache again. — Mignon McLaughlin
We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny" — Mignon McLaughlin
Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette. — Mignon McLaughlin
The way the neurotic sees it: bars on his door mean that he's locked in; bars on your door mean that he's locked out. — Mignon McLaughlin
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. — Mignon McLaughlin
Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along. — Mignon McLaughlin
A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough. — Mignon McLaughlin
The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol. — Mignon McLaughlin
How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him. — Mignon McLaughlin
We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter. — Mignon McLaughlin
Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference. — Mignon McLaughlin
Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul. — Mignon McLaughlin
In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance. — Mignon McLaughlin
Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on. — Mignon McLaughlin
Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality. — Mignon McLaughlin
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. — Mignon McLaughlin
Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition. — Mignon McLaughlin
There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human beings like that. — Mignon McLaughlin
Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men. — Mignon McLaughlin
Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there's no such thing as exactly enough. — Mignon McLaughlin
There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved. — Mignon McLaughlin
What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer. — Mignon McLaughlin
True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive. — Mignon McLaughlin
Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all — Mignon McLaughlin
What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven. — Mignon McLaughlin
Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart. — Mignon McLaughlin
The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried. — Mignon McLaughlin
We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along. — Mignon McLaughlin
Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom. — Mignon McLaughlin
The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years. — Mignon McLaughlin
There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than. — Mignon McLaughlin
Life Lessons by Mignon McLaughlin
Mignon McLaughlin believed that life is a journey, not a destination, and that it is important to take risks and accept failures as part of the process. She taught that it is important to take time to appreciate the little things in life and to focus on the positive. Lastly, she encouraged people to live with courage and to not be afraid to be vulnerable and express their true feelings.
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