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

Phyllis McGinley
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Lost Time is never found again. - Benjamin Franklin

  2. How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever. - David Norris

  3. Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. - Dion Boucicault

  4. But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. - Benjamin Disraeli

  5. Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time, ' is like saying, 'I don't want to. - Lao Tzu

More Quotes By Phyllis McGinley
  1. Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy

  2. The other day I chanced to meet An angry man upon the street – A man of wrath, a man of war, A man who truculently bore Over his shoulder, like a lance, A banner labeled “Tolerance.

  3. God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul.

  4. A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.

  5. 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.

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