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A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is. — Phyllis Bottome

Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause. — Phyllis McGinley

It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core. — Phyllis Diller

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor. — Phyllis Diller

It's great playing a mature character. It adds something. — Phyllis Logan

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out. — Phyllis Diller

The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale. — Phyllis Rose

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

Broken hearts mend. It's a lot harder to mend broken lives. — Phyllis A. Whitney

Sandra Kasturi's magical poems transform the ordinary into the surreal and exotic. — Phyllis Gotlieb

And if my heart isn't in my mouth it's because it knows its place. — Phyllis Gotlieb

God challenges all of us to attempt things for him which we are unable to do in ourselves, so that the Glory may be his. — Phyllis Irwin

If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity. — Phyllis Bottome

I'd love to slit my mother-in-law's corsets and watch her spread to death. — Phyllis Diller

I was the world's ugliest baby. When I was born, the doctor slapped everybody. — Phyllis Diller

After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans. — Phyllis Schlafly

Fang and I are always fighting. When we get up in the morning, we don't kiss; we touch gloves. — Phyllis Diller

If it weren't for my adam's apple, I'd have no shape at all. — Phyllis Diller

It's a certain kind of immortality, because those Disney films do go on and on and on. — Phyllis Diller

Your husband is lazy if coffee doesn't keep him awake - even when it's hot and being spilled on him. — Phyllis Diller

Artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger. — Phyllis Bottome

When he proposed he said, "We'll make such beautiful music together," but in this duet, his part seems to be all rests. — Phyllis Diller

Much of the demand for women in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and promotions. — Phyllis Schlafly

Carry an oar when you drive. Three times I've ended up in water. — Phyllis Diller

The ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's. — Phyllis Bottome

I don't want to sound like I'm on dope, but that hour is a high; it's as good as you can feel. A wonderful, wonderful happiness, and great power. — Phyllis Diller

It's hard to find a negligee in my size. I wear a Junior Mister. — Phyllis Diller

These aren't accidents. They are significant choices, like the choice of a totemic animal: something in your spirit aligns with theirs. — Phyllis Rose

I think that when you get married you have consented to sex. That's what marriage is all about, I don't know if maybe these girls missed sex ed. — Phyllis Schlafly

There was only one thing to do, and he did it. Ignoring Bomazine's leering face, Ike reached down and took up a notch in his belt. — Phyllis R. Fenner

It's only natural," said Phyllis. "Lord Grantham certainly wasn't very excited about Matthew's newfangled ideas for the estate. — Leslie Meier

Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus! — Phyllis Bottome

Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money. — Phyllis Schlafly

He looked like a young Crusader on a tomb. That was Phyllis's first impression of Allan Harrington. — Margaret Widdemer

I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. — Phyllis Diller

Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship. — Phyllis Schlafly

It doesn't seem too unusual to have a live hermit crab here in Atlantic City, but when you think I brought it all the way from Texas, it's unusual. — Phyllis George

If the woman picks the wrong man, that's not society's problem. That's her problem. — Phyllis Schlafly

Aye, we all know your fondness for apples, brother. — Phyllis Ann Karr

It's all right to have secrets, ... as long as you don't have any secrets from yourself. — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

There's such a buildup of crud in my oven, there's only room to bake a single cupcake. — Phyllis Diller

It's true Fang and I fight, but we've never gone to bed mad. Of course, one year we were up for three months. — Phyllis Diller

All I ever learned at my mother's knee was what a bony knee looked like. — Phyllis Diller

It took me three weeks to stuff the turkey. I stuffed it through the beak. — Phyllis Diller

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance. — Phyllis Diller

One of the earliest religious disappointments in a young girl's life devolves upon her unanswered prayer for a horse. — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

It's true as a woman, particularly: the older you get, the parts get thinner on the ground and not quite as interesting, that's for sure. — Phyllis Logan

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves. — Phyllis Diller

There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto. — Phyllis Diller

The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography. — Phyllis Schlafly

We revisit those places where we experienced love, as pilgrims return to holy places, to be reminded, restored, and reaffirmed by them. — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make ... — Phyllis Bottome

We spend the first 12 months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next 12 months teaching them to sit down and shut up. — Phyllis Diller

A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them. — Phyllis Bottome

Change to me is like an old friend. It's not my enemy anymore. And I know it will keep coming back to visit again and again to teach me something new. — Phyllis George

This gap perpetuates a cycle of injustice in our society that often begins in middle school with suspension practices. — Phyllis Hunter

IMDB's not the most accurate. Even my birth place and my age are wrong there. — Phyllis Smith

I think everyone knows someone who's battling with dementia or caring for a relative affected by it. I've been staggered by how commonplace it is. — Phyllis Logan

It's what they say to do when you're depressed, you know. Walk in someone else's shoes for a while, and your own won't feel so tight. — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Personally, I think it's a good way to let a child start right in with the laws of Nature before he's old enough to be surprised at them. — Phyllis Bottome

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. — 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

rape of a woman. One of the sons of Rome's tyrannical king ravished Lucretia, a pure young wife. She told her husband and her father of this, — Phyllis T. Smith

One pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled — Phyllis Bottome

I honestly believe there is absolutely nothing like going to bed with a good #book; or a friend who's #read one. — Phyllis Diller

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. — Phyllis McGinley

The ability to forget a sorrow is childhood's most enchanting feature. — Phyllis McGinley

The European nations' loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans. — Phyllis Schlafly

There's a fine line between being sweet and innocent and being a tough broad. — Phyllis George

One of the wonderful things about being ALIVE is that it's never too late. — Phyllis A. Whitney

I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life? — Phyllis Bottome

Before you get married you should meet your fiance's parents. It is not enough that you like his parole officer. — Phyllis Diller

If it doesn't sweat, jiggle, or pant, it's not alive. — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Wherever conversation's flowing, / Why must I feel it falls on me / To keep things going? — Phyllis McGinley

I hate that phrase: move on. Like no matter what happened or what you did, you just "move on," and that's supposed to make everything all right. — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

It's hard / Keeping up with the avant-garde. — Phyllis McGinley

Hey boys, come up here!" Lee's excited shout bounced from rock to rock down the gulch. "I've got all of California right here in this pan! — Phyllis Flanders Dorset

There is satisfaction in seeing one's household prosper; in being both bountiful and provident. — Phyllis McGinley

It's an ill will that blows when you leave the hairdresser. — Phyllis Diller

Retracing the various episodes of one's life, one is disconcerted to discover that one was not as noble as one thought oneself at the time. — Phyllis Bentley

I'm from such an old family, it's been condemned. — Phyllis Diller

My body's in such bad shape I wear prescription underwear. — Phyllis Diller

Money's scarce
Times are hard
Here's your fucking
Xmas card — Phyllis Diller

What's the problem with 'never?' It keeps you from trying. It ensures that you will fail. End of story. — Phyllis George

There is no neutrality. There is only greater or lesser awareness of one's bias. — Phyllis Rose

A good book isn't written, it's rewritten. — Phyllis A. Whitney

Say what you will, making a marriage work is a woman's business. — Phyllis McGinley

The knowingness of little girls, is hidden underneath their curls. — 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

Admit it, "Lord I'm Not Done Yet"
Live it, "Lord I'm Not Done Yet"
Shout it, "Lord I'm Not Done Yet — Phyllis Lomax Singh

I think it's healthy to say, 'I'm 58 and, do you know what, this is what a 58-year-old woman looks like.' — Phyllis Logan

Doctors say it's okay to have sex after a heart attack, provided you close the ambulance door. — Phyllis Diller

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

I am completely happy. My sister is here, and because my sister is here I am somehow more me. — Phyllis Moore

The Three Cs, I told myself. When you're not Comfortable with it, it's not a Compliment, it's Creepy. — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship. — Phyllis Schlafly

It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true. — Phyllis Bottome

Tiberius Nero's face lit up with a smile. "What did you do, offer to make him consul?" I asked Tavius later. He shook his head. — Phyllis T. Smith

My husband is so useless that it's hard for me to be romantic with him. I get down on the floor and say, If you love me, blink your eyes. — Phyllis Diller