Phyllis McGinleyThinkers

Australia is a country where not reading poetry is the national pastime.

Compromise is what makes nations great and marriages happy.

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

Gardening is creation in the pure sense... it has compensations out of all proportion to its goals.

Gardening is unable to remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.

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.

Intolerance is a state no tolerant man can tolerate.

Life is the fruit she longs to hand you, Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.

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

A Mother is hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you ripe on a plate. And while you live, relentlessly she understands you.

Time is the thief you cannot banish.