Mignon McLaughlin (June 6, 1913 – December 20, 1983) was an American journalist and author.
The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.
With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.
When their children fail to charm others, few parents can stay neutral.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Even in the same family, one child will always instinctively know when to ask for things, and another won't.
Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else.
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.
No one ever loved anyone the way that person wanted to be loved.
I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice.
The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.
Altruism is a hard master, but so is opportunism.
All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.
If I knew why I worried so much, I wouldn't worry.
How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him.
Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.
Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls.
Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke.
The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.
Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways.
Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.