Phyllis Mcginley Famous Quotes
"Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart."
"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."
"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."
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
Phyllis Mcginley Quotations
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Robert Byrne
The Islamic Republic is proud to be the target of the rage of the world's greatest Satan. in response to George W. Bush's assertion of Iran as part of an axis of evil
Ayatullah Khamenei
Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give."
Charles Caleb Colton
"To get thine ends, lay bashfulness aside Who fears to ask, doth teach to be deny'd."
Thomas Herrick
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
Aeschylus
"Hope is the thing with feathers -- that perches in the soul -- and sings the tune without words -- and never stops, at all."
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
"He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities."
Robertson Davies