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
fun children real
Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.
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.
funny-love twenties puppy
Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.
loneliness insomnia reality
Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.
hate eye worry
Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.
drinking alcohol desire
The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.
business communication silence
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
land flying promise
Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.
play groups novel
Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.
freedom anger honor
Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
best-love women heart
The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
attitude love-life positive-attitude
Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't.
godly looks needed
Don't look for God where He is needed most; if you didn't bring Him there, He isn't there.
teenage thinking teens
How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them.