Phyllis McGinley Quotes
Top 55 wise famous quotes and sayings by Phyllis McGinley
Phyllis McGinley Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Phyllis McGinley on Wise Famous Quotes.
I am he / Who champions total liberty - / Intolerance being, ma'am, a state / No tolerant man can tolerate.
Happiness puts on as many shapes as discontent, and there is nothing odder than the satisfaction of one's neighbor.
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.
Life is the fruit she longs to hand you
Ripe on a plate. And while you live,
Relentlessly she understands you.
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy
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.
Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.
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.
I sing Connecticut, her charms / Of rivers, orchards, blossoming ridges. / I sing her gardens, fences, farms, / Spiders and midges.
Scratch any father, you find / Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, / Believing change is a threat ...
Shunning the upstart shower, / The cold and cursory scrub, / I celebrate the power / That lies within the Tub.
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.
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.
O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing.
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.
Behind every myth lies a truth; beyond every legend is reality, as radiant (sometimes as chilling) as the story itself.
Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.
There are books that one needs maturity to enjoy just as there are books an adult can come on too late to savor.
Suffering is as necessary to entertaining as vermouth is to a Martini - a small but vital ingredient.
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.
A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.
Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet.
Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.
Of the small gifts of heaven, / It seems to me a more than equal share / At birth was given / To girls with curly hair.