Mignon McLaughlin (1913 – 1983)
American journalist and author.
Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.
Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't.
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.
What you can't get out of, get into whole-heartedly.
The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried.
Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way.
A childhood can be judged sheltered or not according to which was learned first, the four-letter word or the euphemism.
Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.
If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.
Insult, not flattery, is the great aphrodisiac.
No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.
Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.
Sooner or later, they govern who are determined to.
There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.
For the happiest life, days should he rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
The neurotic doesn't know how to cope with his emotional bills; some he keeps paying over and over, others he never pays at all.
If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.
We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?
Anything you do from the heart enriches you, but sometimes not till years later.
I often pray, though I’m not really sure Anyone’s listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He’s literary.