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Inspirational Quotes by Phyllis McGinley
- Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year everybody.
- Time is the thief you cannot banish.
- Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.
- What in me is pure conviction is simple prejudice in you.
- It is the leisured, I have noticed, who rebel the most at an interruption of routine.
- Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.
- Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.
- Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.
- A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
- A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento