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
family blood water
There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.
family children blessed
If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.
family understanding bitterness
Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.
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.
composed strength weakness
Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show
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.
courage gets matters minute next
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one minute to the next
american-journalist wants
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
god thinking may
Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God.
heartbreak divorce love-is
When we discuss those we love with those who do not love them, the end of love is near.
failure old-friends comfortable
Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.