Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure. — Phyllis McGinley
Seventy is wormwood, seventy is gall but its better to be seventy, than not alive at all. — Phyllis McGinley
Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child. — Phyllis McGinley
Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at christmas time! — Phyllis McGinley
Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday’s triumphant cause. — Phyllis McGinley
Marriage was all a woman’s idea and for man’s acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. — Phyllis McGinley
Gossip isn’t scandal and it’s not merely malicious. It’s chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. — Phyllis McGinley
Getting along with men isn’t what’s truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man. — Phyllis McGinley
A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe; she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby — Phyllis McGinley
The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession. — Phyllis McGinley