Quote by Phyllis McGinley
Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickl

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time! – Phyllis McGinley

Other quotes by Phyllis McGinley

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. – Phyllis McGinley

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alone
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Marriage was all a womans idea and for mans acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. – Phyllis McGinley

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Marriage
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Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure. – Phyllis McGinley

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Other Quotes from
Christmas
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Santa is our cultures only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. Its a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and thats a pity. – Chris Van Allsburg

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Christmas

Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given — when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes. – Joan Winmill Brown

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Christmas

Im bad on Valentines Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine oclock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. Im in ToysRUs all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing. – Jamie Foxx

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Christmas

Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles. – Author Unknown

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Christmas

Random Quotes

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Nature

While its really hard to do, at the same time, Im escaping my body, which I really want to do. Im living someone elses life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. Im experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I dont have in my physical life. – Laura Hillenbrand

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Freedom

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. – Theodore Rubin

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Adversity

It will be a hard game if you think about winning a championship. We need to think about our own game at the moment and focus on getting good results especially over the Christmas period. – Dennis Bergkamp

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Christmas