533 Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

Whether or not you love television, you’ve got to admit that it certainly loves itself.

A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he’s always apologizing, his children are monsters.

You can’t truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.

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.

Not for nothing does the neurotic suffer – but not for anything very much, either.

The neurotic doesn’t know how to cope with his emotional bills; some he keeps paying over and over, others he never pays at all.

The three horrors of modern life – talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.

Philosophy teaches a man that he can’t take it with him; taxes teach him he can’t leave it behind either.

When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers – and men, their fathers – all it usually means is that they’ve decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.