139 Quotes by Phyllis McGinley

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year everybody.

Wherever conversation's flowing, / Why must I feel it falls on me / To keep things going?

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.

For the hearts of nurses are solid gold, / But their heels are flat and their hands are cold, / And their voices lilt with a lilt that's falser / Than the smile of an exhibition waltzer. / Yes, nurses can cure you, nurses restore you, / But nurses are bound that they do things for you.

Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.

The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical or impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.

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

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