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
psychology neurosis cold
Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it.
airports circles neurotic
The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport.
marriage our-world break
Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter.
marriage years may
A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love.
marriage affair restful
Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.
marriage judging convenience
The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.
character personality admire
We're seldom drawn to a character we admire; only to a personality we like.
done best-work seems
Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else.
figures
A woman will do anything to keep a pretty figure, but hardly anything to get one.
enemy devil common
God and the devil lose to a common enemy: inertia.
money speak
When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say.
money wish firsts
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.
money husband sacrifice
A woman's mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband.
neurotic humans
As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can.