Top 350 Mignon McLaughlin Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn’t be so anxious.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

302. “Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

304. “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

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

308. “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

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

310. “The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

313. “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

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

315. “Theatre audiences can’t be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel and cry.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

316. “When first we fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

317. “We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

318. “Even in the same family, one child will always instinctively know when to ask for things, and another won’t.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

319. “The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn’t even know they carried.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

320. “It’s awesome to realize that if your greatest potential talent is for riding a bicycle upside down on a high wire, you will somehow discover it.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

321. “No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

322. “It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

323. “Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

324. “Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

325. “What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

326. “The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

327. “My thoughts, I guess, are bitter: who but the bitter have thoughts?”

— Mignon McLaughlin

328. “A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

329. “There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human beings like that.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

330. “Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

331. “The way the neurotic sees it: bars on his door mean that he’s locked in; bars on your door mean that he’s locked out.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

333. “With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

334. “Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

335. “Creative work is one of life’s greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

336. “Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it’s made you a mess, but you won’t die from it.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

337. “Goods are displayed by thousands of shopkeepers with a sense of beauty that finds no other outlet.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

338. “The neurotic would like to trust his analyst – if only because he’s paying him so much money. But he can’t – because if the analyst really cared, he’d be doing it for nothing.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

339. “It’s easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child – at least till you try to get him to do something.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

340. “If you hate your lot but wouldn’t trade it, it’s not your lot you hate.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

341. “Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

342. “When we discuss those we love with those who do not love them, the end of love is near.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

343. “Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn’t exist.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

344. “How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he’s going to wind up wanting hasn’t even been born.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

345. “Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

346. “Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn’t have it any other way.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

348. “The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

349. “When the pressures really mount, the neurotic must choose: Shall he have a good cry, or set fire to his neighbor’s house?”

— Mignon McLaughlin

350. “If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.”

— Mignon McLaughlin