Best Housekeeping Quotes
61 Housekeeping quotes by 46 unique authors
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He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house.
— Zsa Zsa Gabor
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I'm a great housekeeper. I get divorced. I keep the house.
— Zsa Zsa Gabor
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The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
— Phyllis Diller
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Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe. There's no place that we know about that can support life as we…
— Sylvia Earle
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About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
— Ernest Hemingway
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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
— Bette Midler
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The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as…
— Ellen G. White
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I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.
— Roseanne Barr
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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
— Erma Bombeck
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Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping
— Peggy Noonan
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Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable and finally has come to look and not to buy. So shoes…
— Marilynne Robinson
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I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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It almost seemed as if there must be some random and of course unfair thrift in the emotional housekeeping of the world, if the great…
— Alice Munro
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universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a lonely lunatic cell looking…
— Stephen King
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Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping.
— Augusten Burroughs
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When I visit a new bookstore, I demand cleanliness, computer monitors, and rigorous alphabetization. When I visit a secondhand bookstore, I prefer indifferent housekeeping, sleeping…
— Anne Fadiman
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The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.
— Marcelene Cox
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All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
— Erma Bombeck
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