533 Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

We’d all like a reputation for generosity, and we’d all like to buy it cheap.

There’s only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that’s a writer sitting down to write.

There’s nothing wrong with most men’s egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can’t cure.

When the pressures really mount, the neurotic must choose: Shall he have a good cry, or set fire to his neighbor’s house?

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn’t be so anxious.

Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it’s made you a mess, but you won’t die from it.

So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn’t, He is behaving like God.

Learn a little of anything, and you’re ready to proselytize.

Even in the same family, one child will always instinctively know when to ask for things, and another won’t.