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Phyllis McGinley quotes: Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause. Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: I am he / Who champions total liberty - / Intolerance being, ma'am, a state / No tolerant man can tolerate. I am he / Who champions total liberty - / Intolerance being, ma'am, a state / No tolerant man can tolerate.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: Time is the thief you cannot banish. Time is the thief you cannot banish.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: Happiness puts on as many shapes as discontent, and there is nothing odder than the satisfaction of one's neighbor. Happiness puts on as many shapes as discontent, and there is nothing odder than the satisfaction of one's neighbor.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: A mother's hardest to forgive.Life is the fruit she longs to hand youRipe on a plate. And while you live,Relentlessly she understands you. A mother's hardest to forgive.
Life is the fruit she longs to hand you
Ripe on a plate. And while you live,
Relentlessly she understands you.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy
Phyllis McGinley quotes: A bookworm in bed with a new novel and a good reading lamp is as much prepared for pleasure as a pretty girl at a college dance. A bookworm in bed with a new novel and a good reading lamp is as much prepared for pleasure as a pretty girl at a college dance.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: Ladies with curly hair / Have time to spare. Ladies with curly hair / Have time to spare.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man. Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful rather than foolish. A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful rather than foolish.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: I sing Connecticut, her charms / Of rivers, orchards, blossoming ridges. / I sing her gardens, fences, farms, / Spiders and midges. I sing Connecticut, her charms / Of rivers, orchards, blossoming ridges. / I sing her gardens, fences, farms, / Spiders and midges.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: Scratch any father, you find / Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, / Believing change is a threat ... Scratch any father, you find / Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, / Believing change is a threat ...
Phyllis McGinley quotes: Shunning the upstart shower, / The cold and cursory scrub, / I celebrate the power / That lies within the Tub. Shunning the upstart shower, / The cold and cursory scrub, / I celebrate the power / That lies within the Tub.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe. This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: How happy is the Optimist / To whom life shows its sunny side / His horse may lose, his ship may list, / But he always sees the funny side. How happy is the Optimist / To whom life shows its sunny side / His horse may lose, his ship may list, / But he always sees the funny side.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time! Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!
Phyllis McGinley quotes: Love or perish" we are told and we tell ourselves. The phrase is true enough so long as we do not interpret it as "Mingle or be a failure. Love or perish" we are told and we tell ourselves. The phrase is true enough so long as we do not interpret it as "Mingle or be a failure.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing. O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: Words may sting, but silence is what breaks the heart. Words may sting, but silence is what breaks the heart.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away. A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure. Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year everybody. Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year everybody.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: Behind every myth lies a truth; beyond every legend is reality, as radiant (sometimes as chilling) as the story itself. Behind every myth lies a truth; beyond every legend is reality, as radiant (sometimes as chilling) as the story itself.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child. Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: If childhood is still a state, it is now chiefly a state of confusion. If childhood is still a state, it is now chiefly a state of confusion.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime. In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all. Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession. The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: The knowingness of little girls, is hidden underneath their curls. The knowingness of little girls, is hidden underneath their curls.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: Say what you will, making a marriage work is a woman's business. Say what you will, making a marriage work is a woman's business.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: The ability to forget a sorrow is childhood's most enchanting feature. The ability to forget a sorrow is childhood's most enchanting feature.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: These are my daughters, I suppose. But where in the world did the children vanish? These are my daughters, I suppose. But where in the world did the children vanish?
Phyllis McGinley quotes: Aunts are discreet, a little shy / By instinct. They forbear to pry ... Aunts are discreet, a little shy / By instinct. They forbear to pry ...
Phyllis McGinley quotes: Tomorrow will come and today will pass, / But the hearts of the young are brittle as glass. Tomorrow will come and today will pass, / But the hearts of the young are brittle as glass.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: There are books that one needs maturity to enjoy just as there are books an adult can come on too late to savor. There are books that one needs maturity to enjoy just as there are books an adult can come on too late to savor.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: There is satisfaction in seeing one's household prosper; in being both bountiful and provident. There is satisfaction in seeing one's household prosper; in being both bountiful and provident.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: It is the leisured, I have noticed, who rebel the most at an interruption of routine. It is the leisured, I have noticed, who rebel the most at an interruption of routine.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: Wherever conversation's flowing, / Why must I feel it falls on me / To keep things going? Wherever conversation's flowing, / Why must I feel it falls on me / To keep things going?
Phyllis McGinley quotes: Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense. Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: The mass of men live lives of quiet exasperation. The mass of men live lives of quiet exasperation.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art ... History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art ...
Phyllis McGinley quotes: It's hard / Keeping up with the avant-garde. It's hard / Keeping up with the avant-garde.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: Suffering is as necessary to entertaining as vermouth is to a Martini - a small but vital ingredient. Suffering is as necessary to entertaining as vermouth is to a Martini - a small but vital ingredient.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on the phone. The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on the phone.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: Sons do not need you. They are always out of your reach, Walking strange waters. Sons do not need you. They are always out of your reach, Walking strange waters.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet. A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet. Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable. Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: What in me is pure conviction is simple prejudice in you. What in me is pure conviction is simple prejudice in you.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here. Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: Of the small gifts of heaven, / It seems to me a more than equal share / At birth was given / To girls with curly hair. Of the small gifts of heaven, / It seems to me a more than equal share / At birth was given / To girls with curly hair.
Phyllis McGinley quotes: Cocktail parties ... are usually not parties at all but mass ceremonials designed to clear up at one great stroke a wealth of obligations ... Cocktail parties ... are usually not parties at all but mass ceremonials designed to clear up at one great stroke a wealth of obligations ...
Phyllis McGinley quotes: Meek-eyed parents hasten down the ramps To greet their offspring, terrible from camps. Meek-eyed parents hasten down the ramps To greet their offspring, terrible from camps.

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