Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel… — Mignon McLaughlin Audience Copy Share Image
There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's… — Mignon McLaughlin Children Copy Share Image
Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way. — Mignon McLaughlin Inspirational Copy Share Image
Not for nothing does the neurotic suffer - but not for anything very much, either. — Mignon McLaughlin Doe Copy Share Image
Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have. — Mignon McLaughlin Failing Copy Share Image
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. — Mignon McLaughlin Courage 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 Human Copy Share Image
It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live? — Mignon McLaughlin Age Copy Share Image
Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud. — Mignon McLaughlin Child Copy Share Image
A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners. — Mignon McLaughlin Car Copy Share Image
The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore. — Mignon McLaughlin Bottom 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 Apologizing Copy Share Image
Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on. — Mignon McLaughlin Feminism Copy Share Image
I know which side my bread is buttered on: the side which falls on the carpet. — Mignon McLaughlin Bread 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 Affair Copy Share Image
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are… — Mignon McLaughlin Believe Copy Share Image
It must infuriate our children to see us always so much more forbearing with everybody else's. — Mignon McLaughlin Child Copy Share Image
No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive. — Mignon McLaughlin Difficult Copy Share Image
A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine. — Mignon McLaughlin Able Copy Share Image
It's easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child - at least till you try to get him to… — Mignon McLaughlin Children Copy Share Image
The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued. — Mignon McLaughlin Anxiety Copy Share Image
Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't. — Mignon McLaughlin Arms Copy Share Image
We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along. — Mignon McLaughlin Giving Copy Share Image
Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway. — Mignon McLaughlin Busy Copy Share Image
Goods are displayed by thousands of shopkeepers with a sense of beauty that finds no other outlet. — Mignon McLaughlin Beauty Copy Share Image
We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still. — Mignon McLaughlin Caught 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 Feels Copy Share Image
In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance. — Mignon McLaughlin Balance Copy Share Image
In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner. — Mignon McLaughlin Dinner 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 Bed Copy Share Image
Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all — Mignon McLaughlin Business Copy Share Image
True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive. — Mignon McLaughlin Consequence Copy Share Image
Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children. — Mignon McLaughlin Children 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 Animal Copy Share Image
As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it. — Mignon McLaughlin Age Copy Share Image
The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction. — Mignon McLaughlin Desire Copy Share Image
There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved. — Mignon McLaughlin Chains Copy Share Image
In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire. — Mignon McLaughlin Age Copy Share Image
Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either. — Mignon McLaughlin Boldness Copy Share Image
There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them. — Mignon McLaughlin Count Copy Share Image
