Quotes by Phyllis McGinley

Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of...

#Age, #Funny

I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is...

#Age, #Funny

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

#Knowledge

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

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When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect...

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Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.

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Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive...

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Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be...

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

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

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

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it...

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