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Phyllis McGinley Quotes and Quotations
Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here. 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. Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant cause. 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. 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. It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen. This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe. Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant cause. 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. |