Quote

The way the neurotic sees it: bars on his door mean that he's locked in bars on your door mean that he's locked out.

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
Sees
Door
Doors
Mean
Way
Neurotic
Locked
Bars

More quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

Image
We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel and cry.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Forget about calories - everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
If only we could be old and sick while we're still young and healthy enough to put up with it!
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
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
The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.
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
The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Others follow patterns we alone are unpredictable.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner.
Mignon McLaughlin