Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
If only we could be old and sick while we're still young and healthy enough to put up with it! — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
If you jot down every silly thought that pops into your mind, you will soon find out everything you most seriously believe. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they'll stop making it tomorrow; if it's all three, they stopped making it… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
If the second marriage really succeeds, the first one didn't really fail. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
If you can tell anyone about it, it's not the worst thing you ever did. — 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
Don't look for God where He is needed most; if you didn't bring Him there, He isn't there. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
It's awesome to realize that if your greatest potential talent is for riding a bicycle upside down on a high wire, you… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Neurotics make poor patriots; if you're ashamed of something as big as yourself, it's hard to be proud of something as small… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
If your husband expects you to laugh, do so; if he expects you to cry, don't; if you don't know what he… — 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
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 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
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 Image
So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn't, He is behaving like God. — 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
In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
