Mignon McLaughlin (1913 – 1983)
American journalist and author.
Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.
A childhood can be judged sheltered or not according to which was learned first, the four-letter word or the euphemism.
Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way.
The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried.
What you can't get out of, get into whole-heartedly.
Every now and then you run across radiantly attractive people and you're delighted to find they adore you, till you realize that they adore just about everybody- and that's what's made them radiantly attractive.
Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't.
Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.
People who won't have a TV set in their house get more pleasure from their refusal than most of us get from TV.
When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.
An artist is a socially unattractive person whom socially attractive people make money out of.
Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.
There's no way to repay a mother's love, or lack of it.
Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.
There’s nothing wrong with most men’s egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can’t cure.
Whether or not you love television, you've got to admit that it certainly loves itself.
Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and difficult as that.
The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.
Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls.