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
time years giving
There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.
time nice thinking
My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I'm ashamed of what I think of doctors in general.
time children memorable
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
time procrastination years
The time to begin most things is ten years ago.
time children years
Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.
time pain health
If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors.
running time people
We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.
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