My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I'm ashamed of what I think of doctors in general. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
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… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Women are good listeners, but it's a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there's something specific you want… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
No matter how many Christmas presents you give your child, there's always that terrible moment when he's opened the very last one.… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
Even in the same family, one child will always instinctively know when to ask for things, and another won't. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
