Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Whether or not you love television, you've got to admit that it certainly loves itself. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The hardest learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
People keep telling us about their love affairs, when what we really want to know is how much money they make and… — 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
When first we fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life. And perhaps we are… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever. — 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 lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
When a man falls in love, he wants to go to bed. When a woman falls in love, she wants to talk… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair. — 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
