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Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.
— Phyllis McGinley
I am he / Who champions total liberty - / Intolerance being, ma'am, a state / No tolerant man can tolerate.
— Phyllis McGinley
Time is the thief you cannot banish.
— Phyllis McGinley
Happiness puts on as many shapes as discontent, and there is nothing odder than the satisfaction of one's neighbor.
— Phyllis McGinley
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
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy
— Phyllis McGinley
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
Ladies with curly hair / Have time to spare.
— Phyllis McGinley
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
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
I sing Connecticut, her charms / Of rivers, orchards, blossoming ridges. / I sing her gardens, fences, farms, / Spiders and midges.
— Phyllis McGinley
Scratch any father, you find / Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, / Believing change is a threat ...
— Phyllis McGinley
Shunning the upstart shower, / The cold and cursory scrub, / I celebrate the power / That lies within the Tub.
— Phyllis McGinley
This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe.
— Phyllis McGinley
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
Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!
— Phyllis McGinley
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
O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing.
— Phyllis McGinley
Words may sting, but silence is what breaks the heart.
— Phyllis McGinley
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.
— Phyllis McGinley
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
— Phyllis McGinley
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.
— Phyllis McGinley
Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year everybody.
— Phyllis McGinley
Behind every myth lies a truth; beyond every legend is reality, as radiant (sometimes as chilling) as the story itself.
— Phyllis McGinley
Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.
— Phyllis McGinley
If childhood is still a state, it is now chiefly a state of confusion.
— Phyllis McGinley
In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.
— Phyllis McGinley
Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.
— Phyllis McGinley
The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.
— Phyllis McGinley
The knowingness of little girls, is hidden underneath their curls.
— Phyllis McGinley
Say what you will, making a marriage work is a woman's business.
— Phyllis McGinley
The ability to forget a sorrow is childhood's most enchanting feature.
— Phyllis McGinley
These are my daughters, I suppose. But where in the world did the children vanish?
— Phyllis McGinley
Aunts are discreet, a little shy / By instinct. They forbear to pry ...
— Phyllis McGinley
Tomorrow will come and today will pass, / But the hearts of the young are brittle as glass.
— Phyllis McGinley
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
There is satisfaction in seeing one's household prosper; in being both bountiful and provident.
— Phyllis McGinley
It is the leisured, I have noticed, who rebel the most at an interruption of routine.
— Phyllis McGinley
Wherever conversation's flowing, / Why must I feel it falls on me / To keep things going?
— Phyllis McGinley
Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.
— Phyllis McGinley
The mass of men live lives of quiet exasperation.
— Phyllis McGinley
History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art ...
— Phyllis McGinley
It's hard / Keeping up with the avant-garde.
— Phyllis McGinley
Suffering is as necessary to entertaining as vermouth is to a Martini - a small but vital ingredient.
— Phyllis McGinley
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
A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.
— Phyllis McGinley
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
Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.
— Phyllis McGinley
What in me is pure conviction is simple prejudice in you.
— Phyllis McGinley
Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.
— Phyllis McGinley
Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.
— Phyllis McGinley
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
