Top 15 Quotes by Phyllis McGinley

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

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

A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.

Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

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