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
god loneliness tired
How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him.
girl men wind
How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born.
confidence mark wells
Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.
money people literature
There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.
integrity sake wells
If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well.
atheist literature sound
Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.
time children memorable
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
change moving-forward pay-the-price
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
children parent remember
Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't.
kindness war compassion
We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.
children hypocrisy fake
Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.
courage cancer matter
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
fairy exciting tooth-fairy
Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.
mother father mean
When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.