Mignon McLaughlin Quotes - Page 14

The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone - until they do.

Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible that both are right.

Nobody knows the trouble we've seen-but we keep trying to tell them.

Others follow patterns; we alone are unpredictable.

Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.

The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.

The neurotic would like to trust his analyst - if only because he's paying him so much money. But he can't - because if the analyst really cared, he'd be doing it for nothing.

Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke.

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

Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.

The neurotic has perfect vision in one eye, but he cannot remember which.

What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.

The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years.

Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us.

Not for nothing does the neurotic suffer - but not for anything very much, either.

To talk easily with people, you must firmly believe that either you or they are interesting. And even then it's not easy.

People keep telling us about their love affairs, when what we really want to know is how much money they make and how they manage on it.

Neurotic quarrels always have the same theme-song: Hate me and get it over with.

Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there's no such thing as exactly enough.

God doesn't measure His bounty, but oh how we do!

To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work.

If I knew why I worried so much, I wouldn't worry.

Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.

The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.

Courage doesn't know what's around the corner, but goes around it anyway.