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Mignon McLaughlin [1913-1983] American

Rank: 101
Journalist

Mignon McLaughlin was an American journalist and author. In the 1950s, she began publishing aphorisms that were later collected in three books, entitled, The Neurotic’s Notebook, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook and The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook.

Age, Courage, Fear, Love, Marriage, Strength, Car, Chance, Change, Friendship, God, Great, Hope, Humor, Learning, Life, Money, Romantic, Society, Travel

Quote	Tags	Rank
The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.		101
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.	Love, Marriage	102
If you made a list of 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.	Marriage	103
There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.	Money	104
Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.	Strength	105
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.	God	106
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.	Courage	107
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.	Love	108
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.	Great, Travel	109
No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.		110
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.	Change, Fear	111
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.	Friendship	112
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.	Chance, Life	113
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.		114
Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.		115
The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.		116
Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.	Hope	117
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.	Fear	118
Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.		119
Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.	Romantic	120
Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.		121
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.		122
We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.		123
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.		124
A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.	Car	125
What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.		126
Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.	Society	201
Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.	Learning	202
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.	Humor	203
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.		204
If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.		205
We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.		206
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.	Strength	207
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.		208
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.		209
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.		210
If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.		211
We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.		212
Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.		213
Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.		214
The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.		215
I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.		216
Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.		217
Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.		218
It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.		219
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.	Age	220
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.	Age	221
Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.	Courage	222

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