#housekeeping

Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable and finally has come to look and not to buy. So shoes are worn and hassocks are sat upon and finally everything is left where it was and the spirit passes on, just as the wind in the orchard picks up the leaves from the ground as if there were no other pleasure in the world but brown leaves, as if it would deck, clothe, flesh itself in flourishes of dusty brown apple leaves and then drops them all in a heap at the side of the house and goes on. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#housekeeping #inspirational #inspirational

He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house. ↗

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

#divorce #house #housekeeping #i #keep

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#housekeeping #kids

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

— Erma Bombeck

#housekeeping #humor #humor

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

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#extension #good #good housekeeping #housekeeping #problem

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

#friendship #housekeeping #real-friends #true-friends #friendship

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

#cleaning #housekeeping #life #age

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

#church #definitely #going #housekeeping #how

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

#go #house #housekeeping #i #incredibly

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

#articles #college #dating #department #dozens