Housekeeping Quotes

• My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

  Bette Midler

  Ideas, Cleaning, Superwoman

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• Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.

  Erma Bombeck

  Memorable, Futility Of Life, Terrorism

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• 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.

  Cheryl Mendelson

  Opportunity, Thinking, Echoes

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• There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Men, Littles, Little Things

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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• I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.

  Roseanne Barr

  Mom, Mother, Clever

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• Housekeeping ain't no joke.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Work, Cleaning, Household

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

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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

  Real, Emotional, Giving

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.17, Macmillan

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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

  Guests, Cleaning, Advantage

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  Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Hilarious, Witty

  Phyllis Diller (2006). “Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy”, p.77, Penguin

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• What really does work to increase the feeling of having a home and its comforts is housekeeping. Housekeeping creates cleanliness, order, regularity, beauty, the conditions for health and safety, and a good place to do and feel all the things you wish and need to do and feel in your home. Whether you live alone or with a spouse, parents, and ten children, it is your housekeeping that makes your home alive, that turns it into a small society in its own right, a vital place with its own ways and rhythms, the place where you can be more yourself than you can be anywhere else.

  Cheryl Mendelson

  Children, Home, Order

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Haste Makes Waste, Leisure

  Henry David Thoreau, Steve Grant (2005). “Daily Observations: Thoreau on the Days of the Year”, p.103, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

  Quentin Crisp

  Funny, Kids, Years

  Naked Civil Servant (1968) ch. 15

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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.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Looks, Mars, World

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Housekeeping: A Novel”, p.73, Macmillan

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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

  Inspiring, Feel Good, Afternoon

  Death in the Afternoon ch. 1 (1932)

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• It is a woman's business to be interested in the environment. It's an extended form of housekeeping.

  Marjory Stoneman Douglas

  Environment, Form

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• 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

  Eye, Cost, Credit

  Albert Richard Smith (1848). “The struggles and adventures of Christopher Tadpole at home and abroad”, p.183

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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

  Growing Up, Children, Silly

  Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints (1966)

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• You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.

  Patrick Dempsey

  Book, House, Insane

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• Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Everything Happens For A Reason, Hours, Strive

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.233, Rajpal & Sons

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• 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

  Movie Love, Church, Television

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• 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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• The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman.

  Marjory Stoneman Douglas

  Thinking, Problem, Environment

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• The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• My husband taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Funny, Life, Witty

  "Wit and wisdom: Zsa Zsa Gabor's best and most memorable quotes". www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2016.

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• Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Tasks, Cleaning, Endless

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