We have to call it "freedom": who'd die for "a lesser tyranny"?
Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
1913–1983
Mignon McLaughlin (June 6, 1913 – December 20, 1983) was an American journalist and author.
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The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
Cash is the one gift everyone despises and no one turns down.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life work.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
There's no way to repay a mother's love, or lack of it.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
The time to begin most things is ten years ago.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
There are whole years for which I hope I’ll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
Most of us can easily do two things at once; what’s all but impossible is to do one thing at once.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mignon McLaughlin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.