Quotes by Phyllis McGinley

Phyllis McGinley

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

Causes

Success

Yesterday

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O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing.

Optimism

Trends

Troops

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Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.

Boys

College

Flower

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

Body

Healing

Peace

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Of the small gifts of heaven, / It seems to me a more than equal share / At birth was given / To girls with curly hair.

Curly Hair

Girl

Heaven

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Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble.

Cost

Daughter

Mom

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Oh, princes thrive on caviar, the poor on whey and curds, / And politicians, I infer, must eat their windy words. / It’s crusts that feed the virtuous, it’s cake that comforts sinners, / But writers live on bread and praise at Literary Dinners.

Cake

Caviar

Comfort

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One applauds the industry of professional philanthropy. But it has its dangers. After a while the private heart begins to harden. We fling letters into the wastebasket, are abrupt to telephoned solicitations. Charity withers in the incessant gale.

Charity

Heart

Letters

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People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.

Immature

People

Sick

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

Christmas

Dimes

Nickels

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