Housekeeping Quotes

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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.

    Looks   Mars   World  
    Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Housekeeping: A Novel”, p.73, Macmillan
  • This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval.

  • Loneliness is more likely to lead to fussy housekeeping than to grand views of the Universe.

  • Housekeeping is not beautiful; it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child; neither the host nor the guest;it oppresses women. A house kept to the end of prudence is laborious without joy; a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.93, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.
  • One of the worst things [Donald Trump] said was about a woman in a beauty contest. He loves beauty contests, supporting them and hanging around them. And he called this woman "Miss Piggy." Then he called her "Miss Housekeeping," because she was Latina. Donald, she has a name.

    Love Is   Names   Missing  
    Source: time.com
  • Yet housekeeping actually offers more opportunities for savoring achievement than almost any other work I can think of. Each of its regular routines brings satisfaction when it is completed. These routines echo the rhythm of life, and the housekeeping rhythm is the rhythm of the body. You get satisfaction not only from the sense of order, cleanliness, freshness, peace and plenty restored, but from the knowledge that you yourself and those you care about are going to enjoy these benefits.

  • Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.20, Penguin
  • 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.

    Lonely   Hunting   Cells  
    Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.280, Anchor
  • The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

    Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa”
  • universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

    Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.8, Publishdrive
  • 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 the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.

    Order   Luxury   Want  
  • 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.

    Death in the Afternoon ch. 1 (1932)
  • 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?

    War   House   Cooking  
  • Housekeeping ain't no joke.

    1868 Little Women, pt.1, ch.11.
  • 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.

  • Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test.

    Women   Tests   Acid  
    ANDRE MAUROIS (1939). “ARIEL THE LIFE OF SHELLEY”
  • The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman.

  • 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.

    Devil   Flesh   Etc  
  • Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.

    Henry David Thoreau, Steve Grant (2005). “Daily Observations: Thoreau on the Days of the Year”, p.103, Univ of Massachusetts Press
  • My husband taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house.

    Funny   Life   Witty  
    "Wit and wisdom: Zsa Zsa Gabor's best and most memorable quotes". www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2016.
  • Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.

  • Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order.

    Spiritual   Art   Apology  
    Julia Cameron (2001). “God is No Laughing Matter”, p.158, Penguin
  • The obvious and fair solution to the housework problem is to let men do the housework for, say, the next six thousand years, to even things up. The trouble is that men, over the years, have developed an inflated notion of the importance of everything they do, so that before long they would turn housework into just as much of a charade as business is now. They would hire secretaries and buy computers and fly off to housework conferences in Bermuda, but they'd never clean anything.

    Men   Years   Long  
    Dave Barry (2012). “The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry”, p.30, Andrews McMeel Publishing
  • A soul mate is not necessarily someone with whom you set up housekeeping. Your soul and their soul have a multi-incarnation attraction.

  • Every time I fold the baby's clothes I feel like a giant that got a housekeeping job with a nice family.

    Baby   Jobs   Nice  
    FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Apr 06, 2012
  • [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.

  • Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it-have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.

    Wise   Taken   Cutting  
    James Russell Lowell (1910). “Essays, English and American”
  • Some people come in and really freak. There's movement everywhere, even a dancing housekeeper!

  • If you're a leader, your whole reason for living is to help human beings develop - to really develop people and make work a place that's energetic and exciting and a growth opportunity, whether you're running a Housekeeping Department or Google. I mean, this is not rocket science.

    "Tom Peters on leading the 21st-century organization". McKinsey Quarterly interview, www.mckinsey.com. September 2014.
  • Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.

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