Top 100 Quotes About Housekeeping
#1. Trouble has set up housekeeping with me, and I can't get rid of it.
Elaine Hussey
#2. You can set up housekeeping on one side of the looking glass or the other--the side that makes big things small or small things big.
Carrie Fisher
#3. Love simply, perpetually exists and that it's a matter of psychic housekeeping to make room for it.
Sharon Salzberg
#4. Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping.
Augusten Burroughs
#5. 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
#6. If a woman is not fit to manage the internal matters of a house, she is fit for nothing, and should never be put in a house or over a house, any way. Good housekeeping lies at he root of all the real ease and satisfaction in existence.
Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
#7. That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw.
Mark Twain
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.
Marcelene Cox
#11. It's the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive - it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
#12. My mum would like to see me on the cover of 'Good Housekeeping' demonstrating children's toys with some nice lipstick on.
Tracey Ullman
#13. It is, but we can only help people by giving less than we take away from them. We enlarge the oasis by increasing the desert. That is the science of time and housekeeping. Some call it economics.
Alasdair Gray
#14. My father was a general manager with Hyatt, so we lived in the hotel so he would be close by if there were any problems. My mum was always adamant about us not abusing it. So I still had to clean my room. Housekeeping would never come and do it.
Dianna Agron
#15. While Obama merely bowed clumsily in the direction of Idiot America, John McCain set up housekeeping there.
Charles P. Pierce
#16. I was going to start a housekeeping business at one point because I'm really good at cleaning houses.
Britt Robertson
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. It is a woman's business to be interested in the environment. It's an extended form of housekeeping.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
#20. Growing up, my two favorite books were Woody Allen's 'Side Effects' and Phyllis Diller's 'Housekeeping Hints.' I carried that Phyllis Diller book with me everywhere when I was in fifth or sixth grade. Eventually, it just fell apart.
Jill Davis
#21. Personal initiative, competitive selection, the profit motive, corrected by failure and the infinite process of good housekeeping and the personal ingenuity-here constitute the life of a free society.
Winston Churchill
#22. I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#23. A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities?
Jane Addams
#24. 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
#25. I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21, working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine.
Judith Krantz
#26. There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#27. 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.
George Bernard Shaw
#28. In the end, it takes phenomenal neatness of housekeeping to put it through the heads of men that they are swine.
Eudora Welty
#29. You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping.
Rudyard Kipling
#30. A soul mate is not necessarily someone with whom you set up housekeeping. Your soul and their soul have a multi-incarnation attraction.
Frederick Lenz
#31. The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
#32. I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated fromlong housekeeping, which he has not the courage to burn.
Henry David Thoreau
#33. 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
#34. It is one thing to let go of the housekeeping. Quite another to relinquish being the center of your children's universe.
Anne-Marie Slaughter
#35. 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 know it, not even our sister planet, Mars, where we might set up housekeeping someday, but at great effort and trouble we have to recreate the things we take for granted here.
Sylvia Earle
#36. I am a very good housekeeper. which I have no reluctance in doing, because I really think it is my peculiar excellence, and for this reason, I always take care to provide such things as please my own appetite, which I consider as the chief merit in housekeeping.
Jane Austen
#37. I have been housekeeping for 31 years and I learned something new on every page!
Deniece Schofield
#38. 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
#39. Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.
Patrick Dempsey
#40. Every time I fold the baby's clothes I feel like a giant that got a housekeeping job with a nice family.
Dana Gould
#41. But the goal of Zen Housekeeping is not to have a home that is perfect. It is to embrace the process of keeping the house - one perfect moment at a time.
Lauren Cassel Brownell
#42. 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.
Edgar Bergen
#43. 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 housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
Henry David Thoreau
#45. Before we can adorn our houses with beautiful objects the walls must be stripped, and our lives must be stripped, and beautiful housekeeping and beautiful living be laid for a foundation: now, a taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors, where there is no house and no housekeeper.
Henry David Thoreau
#46. I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
Pamela Anderson
#47. I used to be the queen of domesticity, a Good Housekeeping cover model in the making. I was also an ambitious professional. These two identities had always been on a collision course. But I was oblivious to that fact until after the crash.
Tiffany Dufu
#48. It's a combination of science, maintenance, and general housekeeping. And then, occasionally, robotics activities or a spacewalk you might get to do.
Scott Kelly
#49. Hispanics still have the highest rate amongst teens with babies so at least the future housekeeping is secure.
Chelsea Handler
#50. Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order.
Julia Cameron
#51. 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.
James Russell Lowell
#52. Somebody once observed
and the observation did him credit, whoever he was
that the dearest things in the world were neighbors' eyes, for they cost everybody more than anything else contributing to housekeeping.
Albert Richard Smith
#53. This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval.
Norm Dicks
#54. A certain amount of housekeeping also goes on in my poems. I wash doorknobs, do dishes, mop floors, patch carpets, cook.
Jane Hirshfield
#56. Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position in the social order is antiquated, as a woman cooking over an open fire with heavy iron pots would know that her entire housekeeping was out of date.
Rheta Childe Dorr
#57. I want to read what you're thinking. I'm pretty sure it's not about housekeeping.
Kathryn Stockett
#58. I felt I'd earned the Good Housekeeping Seal when I designed an oval-shaped spaghetti pot, because spaghetti is long.
Rachael Ray
#59. I'm very fond of experimental housekeeping.
Jane Austen
#60. He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
#61. 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
#62. The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#63. The dearest things in the world
are our neighbor's eyes;
they cost everybody more
than anything else in housekeeping.
Sydney Smith
#64. My first novel, 'Housekeeping,' was accepted by the first agent who read it, and bought by the first editor who read it. In general, my experience with publication has been gentle and gratifying.
Marilynne Robinson
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. A New World. A world where God has set up housekeeping, where God will live right with us, and we with Him. He'll wipe the tears from our eyes, and death will die. No more crying, no more sorrow, no more pain, no more.
Philip Gulley
#69. In the same way a cluttered room becomes difficult to walk, a cluttered mind becomes difficult to think. Meditation is simply a daily housekeeping practice; therefore, put the thoughts away where they belong, take out the unwanted clutter, and relax in the space you created.
Jenna Alatari
#70. Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time.
Marilynne Robinson
#71. Loneliness is more likely to lead to fussy housekeeping than to grand views of the Universe.
Mason Cooley
#72. Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test.
Andre Maurois
#73. I am often amused when women with little or no experience in housekeeping and/or unaccustomed to performing household chores, upon stumbling on a man almost miraculously become domesticated.
D. Cypriani Regis
#75. I saw a want ad. "light housekeeping." They said "Here, change this bulb." I said "I'll need some friends."
Steven Wright
#76. I am not so concerned with how many Rotten Tomatoes we have - although the good reviews are to be wished for, of course - but I have my hands full in the daily housekeeping of doing Maura right and being truthful to this experience.
Jeffrey Tambor
#77. The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful. Before we can adorn our houses with beautiful objects the walls must bestripped, and our lives must be stripped, and beautiful housekeeping and beautiful living laid for a foundation.
Henry David Thoreau
#78. In regards to those other franchises that are being remade, we must take pains to mention that we're the only one where the original creators are actually making the movie. It's a special feel of quality, like a Good Housekeeping quality.
David Kirschner
#79. Housekeeping comprises the ability to find, evaluate, and use information about nutrition, cooking, chemistry and biology, health, comfort, laundry, cleaning, and safety.
Cheryl Mendelson
#81. No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
Betty Friedan
#82. You must know that it is by the state of the lavatory that a family is judged.
Pope John XXIII
#83. Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, "Respect me; I'm a respectable grown-up!" and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.
Wendy Wasserstein
#84. 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
#85. It's not the nineteenth century; I'm not meant to be judged on how good a housekeeper I am. Getting down on the floor with a lemon and a bucket of vinegar does not make me a better person.
Emily Matchar
#86. I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.
Roseanne Barr
#87. Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.
Phyllis Diller
#88. A messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends.
Real friends are there to visit you not your house!
Jennifer Wilson
#90. I don't know why no one ever thought to paste a label on the toilet-tissue spindle giving 1-2-3 directions for replacing the tissue on it. Then everyone in the house would know what Mama knows.
Erma Bombeck
#91. No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.
Erma Bombeck
#93. My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
Bette Midler
#94. I hate housework. You make the beds, you wash the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.
Joan Rivers
#95. I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.
Shirley Conran
#96. Choose love as your priority: Establish the rule at home that money is only secondary and that love reigns supreme. Don't allow money to get in the way of your relationship. Rejoice over sufficient resources, while making the lack of it an occasion for deeper bonding.
Good Housekeeping
#97. And this mess is so big
And so deep and so tall,
We cannot pick it up.
There is no way at all!
Dr. Seuss
#98. Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.
Erma Bombeck
#99. There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.
Erma Bombeck
#100. Things were a little untidy, but what did that matter? It was possible to become the slave of things; possible to miss life in preparation for living.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
