Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else. — Mignon McLaughlin Best Copy Share Image
Neurotics have plenty of non-neurotic friends, but not for long. — Mignon McLaughlin Friend Copy Share Image
The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone — until they do. — Mignon McLaughlin Inspirational Copy Share Image
Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary. — Mignon McLaughlin Ifs Copy Share Image
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. — Mignon McLaughlin Children Copy Share Image
We can never at any time absorb more love than we're ready for. — Mignon McLaughlin Absorb Copy Share Image
Fields can lie fallow but we can't; we have less time. — Mignon McLaughlin Entrepreneur 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
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 Bars Copy Share Image
We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier. — Mignon McLaughlin Action Copy Share Image
The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on… — Mignon McLaughlin Able Copy Share Image
Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk. — Mignon McLaughlin Funny Copy Share Image
Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette. — Mignon McLaughlin Animal Copy Share Image
Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible that both are right. — Mignon McLaughlin Down and 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 Able Copy Share Image
Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have… — Mignon McLaughlin Albert einstein Copy Share Image
Every now and then you run across radiantly attractive people and you're delighted to find they adore you, till you realize that… — Mignon McLaughlin Adore Copy Share Image
If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd… — Mignon McLaughlin Couple 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 Covered 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 Bearable 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
Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a… — Mignon McLaughlin Anger Copy Share Image
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. — Mignon McLaughlin Charms Copy Share Image
It is always safe to tell people that they're looking wonderful. — Mignon McLaughlin People Copy Share Image
Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar. — Mignon McLaughlin Absence Copy Share Image
If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well. — Mignon McLaughlin Every day Copy Share Image
“Even cowards can endure hardship; only he brave can endure suspense” — Mignon McLaughlin Endure Hardship Copy Share Image
Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end. — Mignon McLaughlin Body Copy Share Image
Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing. — Mignon McLaughlin God Copy Share Image
At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic. — Mignon McLaughlin Affair Copy Share Image
Women go to beauty parlors for the unmussed look men hate. — Mignon McLaughlin Beauty Copy Share Image
The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing. — Mignon McLaughlin Best work Copy Share Image
We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture. — Mignon McLaughlin Furniture Copy Share Image
“Mama does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Dada first. ” — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
