Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

You never realize how tacky your furniture is till you try to give it to the Salvation Army and they won't take it.

In every group of intimidated people, each thinks "I will rebel," but each waits for the others.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. People might not return it; or worse, they might.

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated.

The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.

I have seen messed-up people of forty who still seemed salvageable, and children of six or seven who almost surely were not.

Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.

Cash is the one gift everyone despises and no one turns down.

Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.