PMPhyllis McGinley

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Phyllis McGinley

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Quotations and sayings

01Undated

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy

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02Undated

The other day I chanced to meet An angry man upon the street — A man of wrath, a man of war, A man who truculently bore Over his shoulder, like a lance, A banner labeled “Tolerance.

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03Undated

God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul.

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04Undated

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.

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05Undated

The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers got hungry scolded God were egotistical or impatient in their turns made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.

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06Undated

Compromise if not the spice of life is its solidity.

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07Undated

Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things about life and the planet and themselves.

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08Undated

Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.

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09Undated

For the wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers got angry scolded God were egotistical or testy or impatient in their turns made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.

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10Undated

This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe.

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11Undated

To be a housewife is ... a difficult a wrenching sometimes ungrateful job if it's looked on as only a job. Regarded as a profession it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world will be lost indeed.

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12Undated

It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen.

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13Undated

Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant cause.

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14Undated

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!

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15Undated

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

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16Undated

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.

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