533 Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

I’m always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice.

Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he’s covered with warts and is only after her money.

The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won’t have that to worry about anymore.

The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.

One of life’s few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.

The neurotic would like to trust his analyst – if only because he’s paying him so much money. But he can’t – because if the analyst really cared, he’d be doing it for nothing.

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.

Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people’s orchards.

Many of us are equal to life’s emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness.