Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin (American Journalist)

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–83) was an American journalist, author, and aphorist.

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, McLaughlin attended Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. She embarked on a career as a journalist and wrote short stories for such magazines as Vogue, Redbook, Glamor, and Cosmopolitan. With her husband, Time magazine editor Robert McLaughlin, Mignon co-authored the play Gayden (1948) for the 1949 Broadway season.

In the 1950s, McLaughlin began publishing aphorisms that were later accumulated in three tomes: The Neurotic’s Notebook (1963,) The Second Neurotic’s Notebook (1966,) and The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook (1981.)

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Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had. … .
Mignon McLaughlin

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.
Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Love

When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say.
Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Money

Despair is anger with no place to go.
Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Adversity

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.
Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Writing

The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn’t even know they carried
Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Eating

Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.
Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Manners

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
Topics: Death

It’s innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn’t.
Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Innocence, Charm, Ignorance

We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Self-Discovery

We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn’t matter.
Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Friendship

What we forgive too freely doesn’t stay forgiven.
Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Forgiveness

The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.
Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Drinking

Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.
Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Morality, Hypocrisy

An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners’ names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.
Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Writing

A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.
Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Writing

The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother’s Day are the good ones.
Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Mothers, Motherhood

Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.
Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Carpe-diem

Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what’s missing.
Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Love

Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can’t.
Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Love

Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.
Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: One liners

Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.
Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Happiness

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.
Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Procrastination

Never is a long, long word, but it’s less frustrating than “God knows when”.
Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Perspective

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Defense, Humor

We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.
Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Confidence

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.
Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Revolution

Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between.
Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Women

Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don’t, you don’t.
Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Attitude

Don’t be yourself – be someone a little nicer.
Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Kindness

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