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In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Nietzsche The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain

Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.

- Phyllis McGinley | Poets and Poetry Quotes

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

- Phyllis McGinley | Religion Quotes

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

- Phyllis McGinley | Success Quotes

Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things about life and the planet and themselves.

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To be a housewife is ... a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes ungrateful job if it's looked on as only 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 will be lost indeed.

- Phyllis McGinley | Self-Knowledge Quotes

It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen.

- Phyllis McGinley | Self-Knowledge Quotes

This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe.

- Phyllis McGinley | Self-Control Quotes

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity.

- Phyllis McGinley | Creating Positive Change Quotes

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

- Phyllis McGinley | Success Quotes

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.

- Phyllis McGinley | Commitment Quotes