Quote

Things are never so bad that they can't get worse. But they're sometimes so bad they can't get better.

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
Sometimes
Things
Never
Worse
Better

More quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

Image
Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too surrounded by people who don't, you don't.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Nobody knows the trouble we've seen-but we keep trying to tell them.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
If it came true, it wasn't much of a dream.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Neurotics have plenty of non-neurotic friends, but not for long.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.
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
Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.
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
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.
Mignon McLaughlin