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Housekeeping ain't no joke. -- Louisa May Alcott
This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval. -- Norm Dicks
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
Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door. -- Marcelene Cox
There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
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. -- Rachael Ray
Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time. -- Marilynne Robinson
My mum would like to see me on the cover of 'Good Housekeeping' demonstrating children's toys with some nice lipstick on. -- Tracey Ullman
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
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
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
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
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
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
Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test. -- Andre Maurois
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
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
One of the worst things [Donald Trump] said was about a woman in a beauty contest. He loves beauty contests, supporting them and hanging around them. And he called this woman "Miss Piggy." Then he called her "Miss Housekeeping," because she was Latina. Donald, she has a name. -- Hillary Clinton
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
universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. -- Henry David Thoreau
I'm a great housekeeper. I get divorced. I keep the house. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors. -- Bette Midler
He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor
The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on. -- Roseanne Barr
I have been housekeeping for 31 years and I learned something new on every page! -- Deniece Schofield
Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity. -- Erma Bombeck
I was going to start a housekeeping business at one point because I'm really good at cleaning houses. -- Britt Robertson
The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things. -- Pamela Anderson
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not. -- Ellen G. White
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
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
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
When you come to a hotel room, you want it to be grand, functional and beautiful. But you don't want things that are not useful. Sometimes you go to hotels and there are all these frames and pictures of people you don't know, and you end up hiding everything in the drawer, and then housekeeping come and put it out again. -- Diane von Furstenberg
Being Dead means very light housekeeping -- Roger Gilbert-Lecomte
I'm very fond of experimental housekeeping." -- Jane Austen
Of all hateful occupations, housekeeping is to my mind the most hateful. -- Hannah Whitall Smith
Loneliness is more likely to lead to fussy housekeeping than to grand views of the Universe. -- Mason Cooley
It is a woman's business to be interested in the environment. It's an extended form of housekeeping. -- Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order. -- Julia Cameron
Hispanics still have the highest rate amongst teens with babies so at least the future housekeeping is secure. -- Chelsea Handler
I saw a want ad. "light housekeeping." They said "Here, change this bulb." I said "I'll need some friends." -- Steven Wright
Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping. -- Augusten Burroughs
Every time I fold the baby's clothes I feel like a giant that got a housekeeping job with a nice family. -- Dana Gould
A certain amount of housekeeping also goes on in my poems. I wash doorknobs, do dishes, mop floors, patch carpets, cook. -- Jane Hirshfield
A soul mate is not necessarily someone with whom you set up housekeeping. Your soul and their soul have a multi-incarnation attraction. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power. -- Louisa May Alcott
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

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