Phyllis Mcginley Quotes (12 quotations)
1. A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away. - Phyllis Mcginley
2. Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy. - Phyllis Mcginley
3. Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man. - Phyllis Mcginley
4. God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness. It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is important to the point of necessity when they are adolescents. - Phyllis Mcginley
5. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shoptalk of the scientist and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past. - Phyllis Mcginley
6. Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. - Phyllis Mcginley
7. In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime. - Phyllis Mcginley
8. Meanness inherits a set of silverware and keeps it in the bank. Economy uses it only on important occasions, for fear of loss. Thrift sets the table with it every night for pure pleasure, but counts the butter spreaders before they are put away. - Phyllis Mcginley
9. The East is a montage. It is old and it is young, very green in summer, very white in winter, gregarious, withdrawn and at once both sophisticated and provincial. - Phyllis Mcginley
10. Those wearing Tolerance for a labelCall other views intolerable. - Phyllis Mcginley
11. To be a housewife is a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed. - Phyllis Mcginley
12. When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting. Before going into a fire, there's the same surge of adrenaline you get just before the camera rolls. - Phyllis Mcginley
2. Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy. - Phyllis Mcginley
3. Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man. - Phyllis Mcginley
4. God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness. It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is important to the point of necessity when they are adolescents. - Phyllis Mcginley
5. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shoptalk of the scientist and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past. - Phyllis Mcginley
6. Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. - Phyllis Mcginley
7. In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime. - Phyllis Mcginley
8. Meanness inherits a set of silverware and keeps it in the bank. Economy uses it only on important occasions, for fear of loss. Thrift sets the table with it every night for pure pleasure, but counts the butter spreaders before they are put away. - Phyllis Mcginley
9. The East is a montage. It is old and it is young, very green in summer, very white in winter, gregarious, withdrawn and at once both sophisticated and provincial. - Phyllis Mcginley
10. Those wearing Tolerance for a labelCall other views intolerable. - Phyllis Mcginley
11. To be a housewife is a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed. - Phyllis Mcginley
12. When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting. Before going into a fire, there's the same surge of adrenaline you get just before the camera rolls. - Phyllis Mcginley
