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
believe interesting people
To talk easily with people, you must firmly believe that either you or they are interesting. And even then it's not easy.
believe silly mind
If you jot down every silly thought that pops into your mind, you will soon find out everything you most seriously believe.
life believe puritan
Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you.
believe neurotic
The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.
atheist believe doubt
There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt.
friendship believe real-friends
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
believe play feelings
Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe in the play.
men ego cures
There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.
women littles able
A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.
american-journalist among count handful money ourselves people whom
There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we count ourselves among them.
american-journalist
We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
society
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
courage gets matters minute next
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one minute to the next
composed strength weakness
Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show