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 Ashamed Copy Share Image
Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers. — Mignon McLaughlin Learning Copy Share Image
All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men. — Mignon McLaughlin Facts Copy Share Image
Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is… — Mignon McLaughlin Cases Copy Share Image
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer. — Mignon McLaughlin Age Copy Share Image
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. — Mignon McLaughlin Communication 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 Children 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 head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime. — Mignon McLaughlin Heart Copy Share Image
A bore: one who knows as well as you do what he is going to say next. — Mignon McLaughlin Bores Copy Share Image
“You never realize how tacky your furniture is till you try to give it to the Salvation Army and they won't take… — Mignon McLaughlin Salvation army Copy Share Image
We cough because we can't help it, but others do it on purpose. — Mignon McLaughlin Helping Copy Share Image
“Most of us would rather risk a catastrophe than read the instructions.” — Mignon McLaughlin Advice 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 Bicycle Copy Share Image
A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. — Mignon McLaughlin Book Copy Share Image
Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too. — Mignon McLaughlin Care Copy Share Image
Pull yourself together' is seldom said to anyone who can. — Mignon McLaughlin Depression Copy Share Image
Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had — Mignon McLaughlin Bearable Copy Share Image
We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap. — Mignon McLaughlin Generosity Copy Share Image
The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius. — Mignon McLaughlin Neurotic Copy Share Image
Every creature stalks some other, catches it, and is caught. — Mignon McLaughlin Animals Copy Share Image
Forget about calories — everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter. — Mignon McLaughlin Calories 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 Age Copy Share Image
