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"A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away."
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"Extend your vacation whenever possible."
"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."
"Angling is just a way of relaxing and escaping in the countryside."
"Before I shall have become a man again I shall probably exist as a park, a sort of natural park in which people come to rest, to while away the time. What they say or do will be of little matter, for they will bring only their fatigue, their boredom, their hopelessness."
"In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society."
"If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure."
"I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming."
Explore more quotes by Phyllis McGinley
"Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man."
"Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful."
"Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!"
"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."
"Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same."
"When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion."
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