Quote

Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.

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
Middle
Someone
Back
Ever
Without
Neurotic
Touching
Bottom

More quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

Image
The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Everybody can write writers can't do anything else.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Whether or not you love television, you've got to admit that it certainly loves itself.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Every group feels strong once it has found a scapegoat.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Some women love only what they can hold in their arms others, only what they can't.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Courage doesn't know what's around the corner, but goes around it anyway.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Hot dogs always seem better out than at home so do French-fried potatoes so do your children.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Nobody knows the trouble we've seen-but we keep trying to tell them.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Healthy parakeets have the nervous energy of tennis players.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it it's losing something you already have.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.
Mignon McLaughlin