Margaret Fishback Quotes

Margaret Fishback serves quirky, nonsense-laden lines that feel like a playful tongue-twister.

5 quotes

1. Old man, forswear that dogged rumba Go home and yield to Christian slumba.

2. Fashion makes the fur fly.

3. To be polite to everybody except the people they love most is a nervous affectation that afflicts many families ... when they come home, they take off their smiles and soft words, and sit about, spiritually in their underwear. This isn't pretty.

4. My precious child, I love you and will never leave you Never, ever, during your trials and testings. When you saw only one set of footprints, It was then that I carried you.

5. “Sometimes I wish that I were dead As dead can be, but then again At times when I've been nicely fed On caviar or guinea hen And I am wearing something new And reassuring, I decide It might be better to eschew My tendency to cyanide.”