Phyllis

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

The most popular labor-saving device is still money.

Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.

To be a housewife is ... a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as 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 is lost indeed.

God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness . It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is important to the point of necessity when they are adolescents.

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.