86 Brooms Quotes

Following is our list of brooms quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about a new broom.

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Famous Brooms Quotes

The person who sweeps the floor should choose the broom. — Howard Behar

A new broom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners — Irish Proverbs

A new broom can sweep the floor, but an old broom knows where the dirt is. - Paul Mooney

A new broom can sweep the floor, but an old broom knows where the dirt is. — Paul Mooney

A broom sweeps clean, and itself becomes soiled; cleanse yourself of those offenses of which you may feel guilty. — Baal Shem Tov

My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance. — Erma Bombeck

Wouldn't the world be a cleaner place if we gave blind people brooms instead of canes? — Nick Thune

Sweep first before your own door, before you sweep the doorsteps of your neighbors. — Swedish Proverbs

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If each of us would only sweep our own doorstep, the whole World would be clean. — Mother Teresa

It's a small world, but not if you have to clean it — Barbara Kruger

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Ive decided to sell my Hoover… well, it was just collecting dust. — Tim Vine

He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well' — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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

If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. Live each moment in such delight that it gives you something inner. — Osho

Short Brooms Quotes

  • Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear. — Zora Neale Hurston
  • A broom is sturdy because its strands are tightly bound. — Filipino Proverbs
  • A broom is drearily sweeping up the broken pieces of yesterday's life. — Jimi Hendrix
  • Never let the guy with the broom decide how many elephants can be in the parade. — Merlin Mann
  • Do you want to be great? Pick up a broom and sweep the floor. — Mother Teresa
  • Only brooms Know the devil Still exists, That the snow grows whiter After a crow has flown over it — Charles Simic
  • It's not the size of the army but the power within the army. — Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune. — Saint Basil
  • The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel. — Elbert Hubbard
  • A legal broom's a moral chimney-sweeper, And that's the reason he himself's so dirty — Lord Byron

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Witch Broom Quotes

She comes by night, in fearsome flight, in garments black as pitch, the queen of doom upon her broom, the wild and wicked witch. — Jack Prelutsky

One can imagine the government's problem. This is all pretty magical stuff to them. If I were trying to terminate the operations of a witch coven, I'd probably seize everything in sight. How would I tell the ordinary household brooms from the getaway vehicles? — John Perry Barlow

All the wild-witches, those most notable ladies For all their broom-sticks and their tears, Their angry tears, are gone. — William Butler Yeats

I was Ashallayn'darkmyr Tallyn, son of Mab, former prince of the Unseelie Court, and I was not afraid of a witch on a broom. — Julie Kagawa

It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick; and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged. — Michel de Montaigne

...just because I don't have on a silly black costume and carry a silly broom and wear a silly black hat, doesn't mean that I'm not a witch. I'm a witch all the time and not just on Halloween. — E. L. Konigsburg

Wedding Groom Quotes

I can't explain why a bride buys her wedding dress, whereas a groom rents his tux. — Lou Holtz

Weddings are never about the bride and groom, weddings are public platforms for dysfunctional families. — Lisa Kleypas

The groom always smiles proudly because he's convinced he's accomplished something quite wonderful. The bride smiles because she's been able to convince him of it. — Judith McNaught

Every bride and groom in the history of civilization has gained weight after their wedding day. It is only a matter of time until archaeologists unearth a married caveman who's wearing a pair of old tux pants that were so tight he couldn't get the zipper closed. — Peter Scott

At American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom. — Calvin Trillin

People have one year after the wedding to send a gift. Thank-you notes must be written immediately. If you don't receive an acknowledgment within three months, phone and ask if it was received. If the bride and groom are embarrassed, fine. They deserve to be. — Ann Landers

[ John F.Kennedy's friend] Chuck Spalding at the wedding said Jack was two guys: the groom and somebody else observing from a distance. ... It must have been maddening to be married to a guy like that, but you could at the same time argue that characteristic kept the world from being blown up. — Chris Matthews

Weddings in our society seem designed to reduce the bride and groom to precisely the condition of those who, because they 'lack sufficient use of reason,' are 'incapable of contracting marriage,' according to canon law. — Nancy Mairs

A wedding isn't for the bride and groom, it's for the family and friends. The B. and G. are just props, silly stick figures with no more significance than the pink and white candy figures on the top of the cake. — Susan Cheever

Every bride and groom would do well to remember that in wedding, the we comes before the I. — Evan Esar

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More Brooms Quotes

One of the best ways to move naturally is by inconveniencing yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel. — Dan Buettner

The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on! — LeRoy Neiman

I do chores around the house, but I don't get an allowance for them. I wash the dishes and sweep the floor... I'm sweeping the floor quite a lot, and my mum always expects me to get a broom and swagger it across the floor all the time. — Callan McAuliffe

We Jews, thank God, have nothing to do with the East. . . . The Islamic soul must be broomed out of Eretz-Yisrael. . . . [Muslims are] yelling rabble dressed up in gaudy, savage rags. — Ze'ev Jabotinsky

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession. — Mahatma Gandhi

I was telling stories before I could write. I like to tell stories, and I like to talk to things. If you]ve read fairy tales, you know that everything can talk,from trees to chairs to tables to brooms. So I grew up thinking that, and I turned it into stories. — J. California Cooper

The first time I passed through the country (Switzerland) I had the impression it was swept down with a broom from one end to the other every morning by housewives who dumped all the dirt in Italy. — Ernesto Sabato

After the hockey stick, Sardara Singh scores with the broom! A great effort by him towards a Swachh Bharat. — Narendra Modi

Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course. — John Lukacs

Basic principles: no matter what, no matter when, no matter who... any man has a chance to sweep any woman off her feet. He just needs the right broom. — Will Smith

Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses. — Edward Abbey

She (Judy Garland) was a friend of mine, a trying friend, but a friend. That is what I tell myself: She did everything she ever wanted to do. She never really denied herself anything for me. See, I say, she had a wonderful life; she did what she wanted to do. And I have no right to change her fulfillment into my misery. I'm on my own broom now. — Liza Minnelli

Bringing up teenagers is like sweeping back ocean waves with a frazzled broom-the inundation of outside influences never stops. Whatever the lure-cars, easy money, cigarettes, drugs, booze, sex, crime-much that glitters along the shore has a thousand times the appeal of a parent's lecture. — Mary Ellen Snodgrass

I quite like convincing the person the broom is their favourite actress. They are talking to a broom and they think it's Julia Roberts and they snog it. In Reading one guy took the broom into the wings and was getting amorous with it. I had a struggle to get it back. He was exhausted when he came out. — Paul McKenna

Too bad brooms can't really fly. Now if you miss the bus you can't just go in your room and fly to school with a nimbus two thousand! — Rupert Grint

Meditation is like a giant broom for sweeping away any stagnant or blocked energy that you may have buried deep in your body. — Deborah King

Let’s see . . . ah, yes, this is nice and cozy.” It was a broom cupboard. — J. K. Rowling

I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone. — Patti LaBelle

(About sweeping).... What he was in FACT doing was moving the dirt around with a broom, to give it a change of scenery and a chance to make new friends. — Terry Pratchett

I think we are all frightened a little bit when a new broom starts to sweep. — Steve Bruce

There's times when I'm cleaning the kitchen, and while I'm doing that, I'm singing and air guitaring with a broom to 'You Should Be Dancing.' — Corey Taylor

I can juggle, not well... I can balance a broom on my chin. I can do very simple carny tricks, a little sleight of hand with cards and coins. — Rich Sommer

So I dipped into my childhood and came up with Nicky Deuce. I wanted him to get into a lot of mischief, like the time I taped a fork to a broom handle and cattle-rustled a steak off the barbecue of the next-door neighbor. — Steve Schirripa

If you covered a broom handle with oil and shoved it up my arse, then put me on a trampoline, in a lift, I could write a better song on the walls. — Dylan Moran

When I was a teenager, I was so dumb my mamma knocked me off the porch with a broom. You wish you had so good a mamma. — Deacon Jones

On wet days I will go into the thickest parts of the forest, where the pine needles are everlastingly dry, and when the sun shines I'll lie on the heath and see how the broom flares against the clouds. I shall be perpetually happy, because there will be no one to worry me. — Elizabeth von Arnim

From the inheritance series book one Eragon. Broom The sands of time cannot be stopped years pass whether we will them or not, but we can remember.......what has been lost may yet live on in memories, that which you will hear is imperfect and fragmented yet treasure it for without you it does not exist. — Christopher Paolini

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