Phyllis McGinley

God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#courage

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#ignorance #knowledge #marriage #wisdom #life

A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#lessons #life #mother #phyllis-mcginley #understand

Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#defeated #fails #like #nothing #success

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

— Phyllis McGinley

#christmas time #dime #how #nickel #petitions

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

— Phyllis McGinley

#deserved #desirable #earned #hug #like

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#day #hobby #keeps

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

#get #getting #how #important #knowledge

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. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#brain #crowded #fine #fold #gentleman

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#national #national pastime #pastime #poetry #reading