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
confidence self people
Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.
funny marriage witty
What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures.
writing typewriters names
An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.
time years giving
There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.
littles too-much making-money
Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there's no such thing as exactly enough..
writing
Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.
philosophy men taxes
Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.
men looks care
Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.
men way down-and
Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible that both are right.
men years age
Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.
two impossible two-things
Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once.
entrepreneur succeed terror
We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.
past entrepreneur special
The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.
demand doe making-money
Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.