Mignon McLaughlin quotes - page 6

Others follow patterns; we alone are unpredictable. (Mignon McLaughlin)
If the second marriage really succeeds, the first one didn't really fail. View quote
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Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice. View quote
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Mama does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Dada first. View quote
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My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I'm ashamed of what I think of doctors in general. View quote
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Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time. View quote
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Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us. View quote
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Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't. View quote
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The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone - until they do. View quote
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Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be. View quote
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A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily changing the position. Change "vertigo" to "anxiety," and you've summed up the neurotic's plight. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Money is much more exciting than anything it buys. View quote
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If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well. View quote
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The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings. View quote
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The time to begin most things is ten years ago. View quote
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What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us. View quote
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Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news. View quote
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The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone. View quote
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All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men. View quote
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We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they? View quote
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Despair is anger with no place to go. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone. View quote
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Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else. View quote
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No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive. View quote
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There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human beings like that. View quote
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