Quote

Altruism is a hard master, but so is opportunism.

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
Hard
Opportunism
Altruism
Master
Masters

More quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

Image
The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
It must infuriate our children to see us always so much more forbearing with everybody else's.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow they can be put off forever, or not at all
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Nobody knows the trouble we've seen-but we keep trying to tell them.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
One day you are an apprentice, and everybody's pet the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Neurotics make poor patriots if you're ashamed of something as big as yourself, it's hard to be proud of something as small as your country.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
It's awesome to realize that if your greatest potential talent is for riding a bicycle upside down on a high wire, you will somehow discover it.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
The trouble with women is men the trouble with men, men.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Healthy parakeets have the nervous energy of tennis players.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Every creature stalks some other, catches it, and is caught.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
My thoughts, I guess, are bitter who but the bitter have thoughts?
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.
Mignon McLaughlin