Quotes by : Phyllis McGinley

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

The other day I chanced to meet An angry man upon the street — A man of wrath, a man of war, A man....

Compromise if not the spice of life is its solidity.

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

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

Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.

Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in....

To be a housewife is ... a difficult a wrenching sometimes ungrateful job if it's looked on as only....

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy....

For the wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers got angry scolded....