Housekeeping Quotes - Page 3

• I'm a great housekeeper. I get divorced. I keep the house.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Clever, House, Divorced

  "Zsa Zsa Gabor, first U.S. star famous for being famous, dead at 99". www.rappler.com. December 19, 2016.

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• Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation between the too comes in. At least if you must put books on one side and life on the other, each is a poor and bloodless thing; but my theory is that they mix indistinguishable.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• When you come to a hotel room, you want it to be grand, functional and beautiful. But you don't want things that are not useful. Sometimes you go to hotels and there are all these frames and pictures of people you don't know, and you end up hiding everything in the drawer, and then housekeeping come and put it out again.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Beautiful, People, Want

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• The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Women, Good Man, Occupation

  Michel de Montaigne (1976). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne”

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• Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Mother, Sweet, Children

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Eight Cousins & Rose in Bloom - A Sequel (Children’s Classic): A Story of Rose Campbell”, p.142, e-artnow

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• Nature has decreed that for what men suffer by having to shave, be killed in battle, and eat the legs of chickens, women make amends by housekeeping, childbirth, and writing all the letters for both of them.

  Jan Struther

  Writing, Men, Suffering

  Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”

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• [Asked, upon the death of her fast friend and sister suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1816-1902), which period of their association she had enjoyed the most:] The days when the struggle was the hardest and the fight the thickest; when the whole world was against us and we had to stand the closer to each other; when I would go to her home and help with the children and the housekeeping through the day and then we would sit up far into the night preparing our ammunition and getting ready to move on the enemy. The years since the rewards began to come have brought no enjoyment like that.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Children, Struggle, Moving

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• Sisters, while they are growing up, tend to be very rivalrous and as young mothers they are given to continual rivalrous comparisons of their several children. But once the children grow older, sisters draw closer together and often, in old age, they become each other's chosen and most happy companions. In addition to their shared memories of childhood and of their relationship to each other's children, they share memories of the same home, the same homemaking style, and the same small prejudices about housekeeping that carry the echoes of their mother's voice.

  Margaret Mead

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

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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 agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not.

  Ellen G. White

  Daughter, Mother, Encouraging Words

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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 cats, and sufficient organizational chaos.

  Anne Fadiman

  Sleep, Cat, Bookstores

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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 for a mate - they would set up housekeeping and raise themselves a cozy little malignant tumor.

  Stephen King

  Lonely, Hunting, Cells

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.280, Anchor

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• universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Friendship, Compassion, Animal

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.8, Publishdrive

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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 happiness--however temporary, however flimsy--of one person could come out of the great unhappiness of another.

  Alice Munro

  Emotional, World, Unhappiness

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Mar 10, 2013

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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 for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house?

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  War, House, Cooking

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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 are worn and hassocks are sat upon and finally everything is left where it was and the spirit passes on, just as the wind in the orchard picks up the leaves from the ground as if there were no other pleasure in the world but brown leaves, as if it would deck, clothe, flesh itself in flourishes of dusty brown apple leaves and then drops them all in a heap at the side of the house and goes on.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Shoes, Apples, Wind

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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

  Wisdom, Mean, Trying

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• The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Essence, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa”

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• Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty.

  Robert Crippen

  Dirty, Sleep, Camping

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• Some people come in and really freak. There's movement everywhere, even a dancing housekeeper!

  Tom Bergeron

  People, Dancing, Movement

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• Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test.

  Andre Maurois

  Women, Tests, Acid

  ANDRE MAUROIS (1939). “ARIEL THE LIFE OF SHELLEY”

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• But housekeeping is fun. It is one job where you enjoy the results right along as you work. You may work all day washing and ironing, but at night you have the delicious feeling of sunny clean sheets and airy pillows to lie on. If you clean, you sit down at nightfall with the house shining and faintly smelling of wax, all yours to enjoy right then and there. And if you cook—that creation you lift from the oven goes right to the table.

  Gladys Taber

  Jobs, Fun, Lying

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• Christ sayeth not, Abstain from the flesh, from marrying, from housekeeping, etc., as  the Papists teach, for that were even to invite the devil and all his fellows to a feast.

  Martin Luther

  Devil, Flesh, Etc

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• Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

  Socrates

  Life, Drinking, Reality

  "The Skinny Budget Die". Book by Linda Goff, 2013.

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• To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, World, Crafts

  Samuel Beckett, Ruby Cohn (1983). “Disjecta: miscellaneous writings and a dramatic fragment”, Calder Publications Limited

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• I felt I'd earned the Good Housekeeping Seal when I designed an oval-shaped spaghetti pot, because spaghetti is long.

  Rachael Ray

  Long, Oval, Pot

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