Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!
From Phyllis McGinley
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.
Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.
Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.
Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.
Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.
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