This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe.
- Phyllis McGinley
More Quotes By Phyllis McGinley
- Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the...
- A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
- Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over...
- Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.
- Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.
- The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God,...
- A mother’s hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate....
- To be a housewife is a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on...
- Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.
- Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a...
- Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation’s catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women...
- In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.
- Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow...
- Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
- Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year everybody.
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