Quotes by : Phyllis McGinley

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

The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers got hungry scolded....

A mother's hardest to forgive.Life is the fruit she longs to hand youRipe on a plate. And while you live,Relentlessly....

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

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

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....

Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare,....

This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe.

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