Mignon McLaughlin (1913 – 1983)
American journalist and author.
Mama does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Dada first.
Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice.
It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.
We tell our children things which we know are not so, but which we wish were so.
Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.
It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.
I often pray, though I’m not really sure Anyone’s listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He’s literary.
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.
The mark of the neurotic: to imagine that you're the only one who cares deeply for anything.
The plague of government is senile delinquency.
We have to call it "freedom": who'd die for "a lesser tyranny"?
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
If everyone gave a tenth of his worldly goods to the person he most admired, the rich would just get richer.
It’s easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child–at least till you try to get him to do something.
Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God.
Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible they are right.
If you made a list of the reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.