I'm a great housekeeper. I get divorced. I keep the house. — Zsa Zsa Gabor
My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance. — Erma Bombeck
I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house. — Zsa Zsa Gabor
Cleanliness is the Hallmark of perfect standards and the best quality inspector is the conscience — J. R. D. Tata
Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance? — Phyllis Diller
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. — Sydney Smith
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. — Phyllis Diller
The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies. — J.R. Miller
The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing. — Barbara Bush
[On women's role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A house is a machine for living in. — Le Corbusier
I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate. — Julie Kenner
Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness. — John Wesley
Housekeepers, homemakers, wives, and mothers are fundamental social relations, which rest upon woman's characteristics, physical, mental, and moral. — R. Heber Newton
A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition. — Elsie De Wolfe
Housekeeping Quotes
I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on. — Roseanne Barr
This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval. — Norm Dicks
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
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality. — Arthur Schopenhauer
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. — Henry David Thoreau
All my wives were great housekeepers. After every divorce, they kept the house. — Willie Pep
Persist to overcome. He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
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
Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping. — Augusten Burroughs
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
There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands. — Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
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
The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas
I felt I'd earned the Good Housekeeping Seal when I designed an oval-shaped spaghetti pot, because spaghetti is long. — Sayings
To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living. — Samuel Beckett
Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation between the too comes in. At least if you must put books on one side and life on the other, each is a poor and bloodless thing; but my theory is that they mix indistinguishable. — Virginia Woolf
First of all, I never make a movie for awards consideration. — Harvey Weinstein
But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation. — Lord Byron
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
I was always a good housekeeper. Whenever I divorced I always kept the house. — Zsa Zsa Gabor
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
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
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
I never make a movie for awards consideration. I will use the hope of getting an Academy Award a) to honor the people who work so hard and also b) it's the greatest Good Housekeeping seal in the world. It's the greatest brand. It's as good as Louis Vuitton and Dior in the world of moviemaking. It's the Super Bowl. — Harvey Weinstein
Among those kinds of food which the good housekeeper should scrupulously banish from her table, is that of hot leavened bread....I believe it more often lays the foundation of diseases of the stomach, than any other kind of nourishment, used among us. — Sarah Josepha Hale
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
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
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
A great statesman, like a good housekeeper, knows that cleaning has to be done every morning. — Andre Maurois
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
My mum would like to see me on the cover of 'Good Housekeeping' demonstrating children's toys with some nice lipstick on. — Tracey Ullman
I did think of becoming a priest quite late on, when other boys were thinking of knocking over fences and going out with girls. I would have made a very good bishop: nice housekeeper, nice clothes - god, the clothes. — Colm Toibin
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