Phyllis McGinley Short Quotes

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But compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity.

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

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The more I see
Of the Pekinee,
The more I am fond of people.

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The knowingness of little girls
Is hidden underneath their curls.

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Those wearing Tolerance for a label
Call other views intolerable.

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Aunts are discreet, a little shy
By instinct. They forbear to pry.

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A successful party is a creative act, and creation is always painful.

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

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If childhood is still a state, it is now chiefly a state of confusion.

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Sons do not need you.
They're always out of your reach;
Walking strange waters.

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

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It is the leisured, I have noticed, who rebel the most at an interruption of routine.

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Meek-eyed parents hasten down the ramps To greet their offspring, terrible from camps.

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

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Tomorrow will come and today will pass,
But the hearts of the young are brittle as glass.

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

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The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.

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History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.

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

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

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Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.

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No candidate too pallid,
No issue too remote,
But it can snare
A questionnaire
To analyze our vote.

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Suffering is as necessary to entertaining as vermouth is to a Martini — a small but vital ingredient.

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

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I am he
Who champions total liberty —
Intolerance being, ma'am, a state
No tolerant man can tolerate.

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

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Shunning the upstart shower,
The cold and cursory scrub,
I celebrate the power
That lies within the Tub.

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Scratch any father, you find
Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors,
Believing change is a threat.

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There are books that one needs maturity to enjoy just as there are books an adult can come on too late to savor.

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Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.

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