Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

The mark of the neurotic: to imagine that you're the only one who cares deeply for anything.

What you were sure of yesterday, you know now to be false, but what you are sure of today is absolutely true.

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.

The neurotic has perfect vision in one eye, but he cannot remember which.

I often pray, though I’m not really sure Anyone’s listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He’s literary.

Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.

Women are good listeners, but it’s a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there’s something specific you want him to do.

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Mama does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Dada first.

It is always safe to tell people that they’re looking wonderful.

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.

The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.