Christmas Quote by Phyllis McGinley

The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in the wildness…

— Phyllis McGinley

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

— Phyllis McGinley

Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow my books and I will be…

— Phyllis McGinley

The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on the phone.

— Phyllis McGinley

God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of…

— Phyllis McGinley

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

— Phyllis McGinley

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…

— Phyllis McGinley

Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.

— Phyllis McGinley

Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair,…

— Phyllis McGinley

What in me is pure conviction is simple prejudice in you.

— Phyllis McGinley

Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the…

— Phyllis McGinley

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

— Phyllis McGinley