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....

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.

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....

It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen.

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

God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness....