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
marriage husband wife
What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.
men years wish
It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.
age slow-down slowing
Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.
men fire smoking
I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.
world-suffering religion forget
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
generosity giving reputation
We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
adversity despair places-to-go
Despair is anger with no place to go.
trust bravery literature
We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
ideas literature matter
No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.
strength women literature
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.
self long-ago sometimes
We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.
happy back-when pennies
Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money.
love anniversary marriage
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.
love relationship distance
Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't.