A Good Housewife Quotes

#1. Men - ' said Miss Williams, and stopped.
As a rich property owner says 'Bolsheviks' - as an earnest Communist says 'Capitalists!' - as a good housewife says 'Blackbeetles' - so did Miss Williams say 'Men!

Agatha Christie

#2. Appeles us'd to paint a good housewife upon a snayl; which intimated that she should be as slow from gadding abroad, and when she went she should carry her house upon her back; that is, she should make all sure at home.

James Howell

#3. Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals.

Ann Oakley

#4. Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.

James Howell

#5. A housewife deserves to be honored as much as a woman who earns her living in the marketplace. I consider bringing up children a responsible job. In fact, being a good housewife seems to me a much tougher job than going to the office and getting paid for it.

Betty Ford

#6. Nature, being a wise and provident lady, governs her parts very wisely, methodically, and orderly: Also, she is very industrious and hates to be idle, which makes her employ her time as a good housewife doth.

Margaret Cavendish

#7. The best way to protect young black, brown, men of color, women of color, is to actually stop profiling, stop the prejudice, and stop the judgment first.

Hill Harper

#8. I believe Andy was meant to die because he was too good I'm almost happy it ended the way it did because I've learned so many lessons from him. It would have been tragic if we got into fights and then divorced [If he had lived], I would be a fat housewife with three kids in Sands Point, Long Island.

Rachel Uchitel

#9. Figuring things out for yourself is practically the only freedom anyone really has nowadays. Use that freedom.

Michael Ironside

#10. Anyway, Cat Stevens is never going to make much money out of us.

Wayne Coyne

#11. there is a thin line between losing yourself in God and losing your mind. Two

Elif Shafak

#12. In Virgil's account of the good housewife, who rises early in order to measure out the work of the household, and in Solomon's description of the thrifty woman of his time, one sees the value set upon feminine industry and economy in times far removed from our own.

Julia Ward Howe

#13. Look, sometimes the truth could hurt you so I blow my cig smoke right at the truth commercial.

Joe Budden

#14. What's she like, the Peeping Tammy?" "She doesn't think about it that way, and you get it when she talks. She likes people.

Nora Roberts

#15. There's ups and downs of any job. If you worked at the post office, there's ups and downs. You have your good days, and you have your bad days. If you're a housewife, you have your good days, and you have your bad days.

Tracy Morgan

#16. What's good for the goose is definitely good for the desperate housewife. Even if this never happened again

James Patterson

#17. Once I started on 'Frances' I discovered it was literally a bottomless well. It devastated me to maintain that for eighteen weeks, to be immersed in this state of rage for twelve to eighteen hours a day. It spilled all over, into other areas of my life.

Jessica Lange

#18. So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate.

Bernard Baruch

#19. A thrifty housewife is better than a great income. A good wife and health are a man's best wealth.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#20. Even if something really hurt you, if it made you feel something it was worth it.

Taylor Swift

#21. Soldiers must possess integrity in order to build trust and confidence in themselves, our leadership, and the American public. Among the things I've learned during my career is that you must be honest with everyone about everything.

Glen E. Morrell

#22. I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Harry S. Truman

#23. It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.

Doris Day

#24. What was wonderful was that even within the drunkenness of two a.m., each of you somehow recognized the more permanent worth and pleasure of the other. You may have arrived with others, will perhaps cohabit this night with others, but both of you have found your fates.

Michael Ondaatje