Top 350 Mignon McLaughlin Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Suburb: a place that isn’t city, isn’t country, and isn’t tolerable.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

252. “Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn’t.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

253. “Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn’t either.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

254. “The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn’t.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

255. “In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

256. “Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

257. “It must infuriate our children to see us always so much more forbearing with everybody else’s.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

258. “We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

259. “Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

260. “It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

261. “Neurotics make poor patriots; if you’re ashamed of something as big as yourself, it’s hard to be proud of something as small as your country.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

262. “There are three iron links in the neurotic’s chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

263. “If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they’ll stop making it tomorrow; if it’s all three, they stopped making it yesterday.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

264. “We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

265. “The trouble with women is men; the trouble with men, men.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

266. “The fault we admit to is seldom the fault we have, but it has a certain relationship to it, a somewhat similar shape, like that of a sleeve to an arm.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

267. “Most of us can easily do two things at once; what’s all but impossible is to do one thing at once.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

268. “No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

269. “Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

270. “In church, sacred music would make believers of us all – but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

271. “Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

272. “Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

273. “Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

274. “Don’t ask others to forgive in you a sin they’re dying to commit themselves.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

275. “Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

276. “We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn’t matter.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

277. “We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

278. “Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what’s missing.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

279. “Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

280. “The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

281. “Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

282. “We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?”

— Mignon McLaughlin

283. “The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

284. “Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

285. “Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don’t.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

286. “We often pray to be better, when in truth we only want to feel better.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

287. “The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

288. “One of life’s few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

289. “One day you are an apprentice, and everybody’s pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

290. “Women are never landlocked: they’re always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

291. “Most sermons sound to me like commercials – but I can’t make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

292. “If your children spend most of their time in other people’s houses, you’re lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you’re blessed.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

293. “The first two days of a vacation are endless; then it flies.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

294. “Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

295. “Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

296. “An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners’ names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

297. “People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

298. “After he has had his tantrum, the neurotic expects those around him to feel friendly and relaxed; after all, he does.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

299. “No woman wants to see herself too clearly.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

300. “A good executive is one who makes people contentedly settle for less than they meant to get, in return for more than they meant to give.”

— Mignon McLaughlin