Mignon McLaughlin foi uma escritora e jornalista estadunidense.
“Tudo o que perdemos, automaticamente dobra de valor.”
Anything you lose automatically doubles in value
citado em "The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners: Over 10,000 Gems of Wit and Wisdom, One-liners and Wisecracks" - Página 542, Geoff Tibballs - Running Press, 2004, ISBN 0786714077, 9780786714070 - 512 páginas
“Os jovens em geral estão cheios de revolta, e por causa dela muitas vezes são revoltantes.”
The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.
citado em "The Book of quotes" - Página 63, Barbara Rowes - Dutton, 1979, ISBN 087690343X, 9780876903438 - 337 páginas
“A pessoa orgulhosa pode aprender a ser humilde, mas terá orgulho da humildade.”
The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.
citado em "The New Beacon book of quotations by women" - Página 330, Rosalie Maggio - Beacon Press, 1996, ISBN 0807067822, 9780807067826 - 844 páginas
“Todos gostamos de ter reputação de generosos, e todos gostamos de comprá-la barato.”
We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
citado em "Morrow's international dictionary of contemporary quotations" - Página 395, Jonathon Green - W. Morrow, 1982, ISBN 0688015379, 9780688015374 - 454 páginas
“Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
“We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Air that has been much quarreled in becomes very hard to breathe.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“What you can't get out of, get into whole-heartedly.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
“Don't be yourself-be someone a little nicer.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
“Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“If you had an unhappy childhood, you will always want to sleep late in the morning.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage
“Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Cash is the one gift everyone despises and no one turns down.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
“Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Others follow patterns; we alone are unpredictable.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men