To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work. — Mignon McLaughlin Cigarette smoke Copy Share Image
We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture. — Mignon McLaughlin Furniture Copy Share Image
Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone. — Mignon McLaughlin Accidents Copy Share Image
Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing. — Mignon McLaughlin God Copy Share Image
A bore: one who knows as well as you do what he is going to say next. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Anything you do from the heart enriches you, but sometimes not till years later. — Mignon McLaughlin Enriches Copy Share Image
What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
A productive marriage requires falling in enjoy numerous occasions, usually with the identical man or woman. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time. — Mignon McLaughlin Country Copy Share Image
The way the neurotic sees it: bars on his door mean that he's locked in; bars on your door mean that he's… — 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 Blessed Copy Share Image
We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier. — Mignon McLaughlin Action Copy Share Image
Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English. — Mignon McLaughlin Children Copy Share Image
Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports,… — Mignon McLaughlin Chance Copy Share Image
Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The neurotic would like to trust his analyst - if only because he's paying him so much money. But he can't -… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that… — Mignon McLaughlin Behavior Copy Share Image
No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he… — Mignon McLaughlin Infatuation Copy Share Image
Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go… — Mignon McLaughlin Boundaries Copy Share Image
The fault we admit to is seldom the fault we have, but it has a certain relationship to it, a somewhat similar… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic. — Mignon McLaughlin Affair Copy Share Image
Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it. — Mignon McLaughlin Death Copy Share Image
We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny" — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first. — Mignon McLaughlin Baby Copy Share Image
“Mama does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Dada first. ” — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense. — Mignon McLaughlin Brave Copy Share Image
Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity, and always its result. — Mignon McLaughlin Boredom Copy Share Image
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers. — Mignon McLaughlin Community Copy Share Image
If the second marriage really succeeds, the first one didn't really fail. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
