Mignon McLaughlin Quotes - Page 6

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• I know which side my bread is buttered on: the side which falls on the carpet.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Fall, Bread, Sides

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.110, BookBaby

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• Despair is anger with no place to go.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Adversity, Despair, Places To Go

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.91, BookBaby

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• Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Happiness, Miserable, Week

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Inspirational, Funny, Marriage

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.22, BookBaby

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• Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Time, Children, Memorable

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• Things are never so bad that they can't get worse. But they're sometimes so bad they can't get better.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Get Better, Sometimes

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• Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Soul, Bypass, Confession

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.91, BookBaby

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• Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Past, Thinking, Resentment

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.108, BookBaby

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• Fields can lie fallow but we can't; we have less time.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Lying, Entrepreneur, Fields

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.74, BookBaby

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• We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Self, Long Ago, Sometimes

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.105, BookBaby

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• The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Death, Purpose, Alive

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.92, BookBaby

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• No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Indecisive, Difficult, Neurotic

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.42, BookBaby

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• Anything you do from the heart enriches you, but sometimes not till years later.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Passion, Heart, Years

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.96, BookBaby

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• My thoughts, I guess, are bitter; who but the bitter have thoughts?

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Bitterness, Bitter, My Thoughts

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Children, Parent, Remember

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.39, BookBaby

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• Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Women, Water, Waiting

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.46, BookBaby

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• Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel and cry.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Thinking, Laughing, Theatre

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.86, BookBaby

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• It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Doe, Done, Harm

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.56, BookBaby

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• A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Women, Littles, Able

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.29, BookBaby

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• We cough because we can't help it, but others do it on purpose.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Purpose, Helping, Manners

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.69, BookBaby

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• When first we fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Falling In Love, Firsts, Feels

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.24, BookBaby

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• When "Why not do it?" barely outweighs "Why do it?" — don't do it.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Wise, Why Not, Wise Words

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.61, BookBaby

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• Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Play, Groups, Novel

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.88, BookBaby

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• Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe in the play.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Believe, Play, Feelings

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.71, BookBaby

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• There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Iron, Three, Links

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.32, BookBaby

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