Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt. — Mignon McLaughlin Creative Copy Share Image
The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so. — Mignon McLaughlin Fantasies Copy Share Image
A good executive is one who makes people contentedly settle for less than they meant to get, in return for more than… — Mignon McLaughlin Executive 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 Ashamed Copy Share Image
Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there's no such thing as exactly enough.. — Mignon McLaughlin Demoralizing 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 Believe Copy Share Image
Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't. — Mignon McLaughlin Children Copy Share Image
“Our strenght is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show.” — Mignon McLaughlin Damned Copy Share Image
The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever. — Mignon McLaughlin Excess Copy Share Image
The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried. — Mignon McLaughlin Checkouts Copy Share Image
Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be. — Mignon McLaughlin Bits 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 Cry Copy Share Image
Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time. — Mignon McLaughlin Children Copy Share Image
Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense. — Mignon McLaughlin Brave Copy Share Image
A bore: one who knows as well as you do what he is going to say next. — Mignon McLaughlin Bore 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
Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both. — Mignon McLaughlin Comfort Copy Share Image
We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter. — Mignon McLaughlin Choose Copy Share Image
Every creature stalks some other, catches it, and is caught. — Mignon McLaughlin Animals Copy Share Image
Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions… — Mignon McLaughlin Catastrophe Copy Share Image
Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt,… — Mignon McLaughlin Enjoy Copy Share Image
A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species. — Mignon McLaughlin Distrust Copy Share Image
In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own. — Mignon McLaughlin Defeat 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
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
Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her… — Mignon McLaughlin Beautiful Copy Share Image
There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have… — Mignon McLaughlin Appliances Copy Share Image
Whether or not you love television, you've got to admit that it certainly loves itself. — Mignon McLaughlin Inspirational Copy Share Image
A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over… — Mignon McLaughlin Anxiety Copy Share Image
When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that… — Mignon McLaughlin Behavior Copy Share Image
Nobody knows the trouble we've seen-but we keep trying to tell them. — Mignon McLaughlin Keep trying Copy Share Image
There's no way to repay a mother's love, or lack of it. — Mignon McLaughlin Inspirational Copy Share Image
We cough because we can't help it, but others do it on purpose. — Mignon McLaughlin Cough Copy Share Image
Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's. — Mignon McLaughlin Energy Copy Share Image
The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime. — Mignon McLaughlin Crime Copy Share Image
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. — Mignon McLaughlin Change Copy Share Image
