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
women littles able
A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.
littles ready
Learn a little of anything, and you're ready to proselytize.
women littles murder
Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between.
littles too-much making-money
Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there's no such thing as exactly enough..
perfection littles tough
Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.
men ego cures
There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.
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
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.