American - Author | March 21, 1905 - February 22, 1978
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
Phyllis McGinley
DayHobbyAwayKeeps
Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
HeartWordsSilenceAnythingLike
Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!
TimeChristmasNickelDimeHowPut
Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.
BetterSeventyAliveThanGall
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
ChildrenGreatIntelligenceCreation
Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.
GossipRaceHumanSameLoversAbout
When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.
FoolMindMeOpinionFactsArgument
Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.
ToleranceCallLabelThoseViews
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.
PeaceI AmHealingMeasureBodyAm
Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.
KnowledgeMenManImportantGetHow
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.
MarriageGratefulWomanManPretty
Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.
AloneMirrorHairFlyTryingDown
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Phyllis McGinley quotes