Best Phyllis McGinley Sayings
- A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead… Baby
- Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child. Child
- A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away. Day
- Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Chatter
- 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… Adversaries
- Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time! Christmas
- 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… Aspect
- A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet. Bit
- Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy Compromise
- 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… Forgive
- Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. Acceptance
- The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon seekers, bent on improbable rescues.… Any
- Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shoptalk of the scientist and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in… Begins
- Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. Compromise
- The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession. Avocation