Quote

A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.

Mignon McLaughlin

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mignon McLaughlin
Age: 70 †
Born: 1913
Born: June 6
Died: 1983
Died: December 20
Journalist
Writer
the United States of America
Broken
Ones
Makes
Heart
Breakup
Ache
Wound
Wounds

More quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

Image
There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Spite is never lonely envy always tags along.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
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.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Cash is the one gift everyone despises and no one turns down.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
It is always safe to tell people that they're looking wonderful.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
It must infuriate our children to see us always so much more forbearing with everybody else's.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
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.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Every group feels strong once it has found a scapegoat.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Things are never so bad that they can't get worse. But they're sometimes so bad they can't get better.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Even in the same family, one child will always instinctively know when to ask for things, and another won't.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put.
Mignon McLaughlin