Phyllis McGinley

“Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay is a lot worse.”

“Suburbia, of thee I sing.”

“A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.”

“A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.”

“The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.”

“Conscience is a cur that will let you get past it but that you cannot keep from barking.”

“One of the fruits of longevity is that you can see how right you were.”

“For this is the lesson of the holidays, that however we meet it, life is a gift, a blessing.”

“For it is the doom of men that they forget.”

“A quarrel is a very important thing in a marriage.”

“Saints are sinners who kept on trying.”

“Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love.”

“An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.”

“For a marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.”

“Women are the bittersweet, the danger and the delight.”