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
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“When a woman reaches forty, she must wait twenty years for her husband to catch up.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage
“True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love
“Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity and always its result.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
“I am as I am" is another way of saying "I can do without your love.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love
“Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
“Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Insult, not flattery, is the great aphrodisiac.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
“Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“In the theatre, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Theater
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
“We have to call it "freedom": who'd die for "a lesser tyranny?"”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“When children are bored, it reflects on us all.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
“The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love
“Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis