Marriage was all a woman’s idea and for man’s acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.
About Phyllis McGinley
Phyllis McGinleywas an American author of children’s books and poetry. Her poetry was in the style of light verse, specializing in humor, satiric tone and the positive aspects of suburban life.
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Marriage was all a woman’s idea and for man’s acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.
American writer and poet (1905-1978)
Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!
American writer and poet (1905-1978)
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
American writer and poet (1905-1978)
Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday’s triumphant Cause.
American writer and poet (1905-1978)
In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.
American writer and poet (1905-1978)
When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.
American writer and poet (1905-1978)
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.
American writer and poet (1905-1978)
Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.
American writer and poet (1905-1978)
Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.
American writer and poet (1905-1978)
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.
American writer and poet (1905-1978)
Getting along with men isn’t what’s truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.
American writer and poet (1905-1978)
Gossip isn’t scandal and it’s not merely malicious. It’s chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.
American writer and poet (1905-1978)
Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.
American writer and poet (1905-1978)
Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
American writer and poet (1905-1978)
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.
American writer and poet (1905-1978)