Quotes of Household - somelinesforyou

“ There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog. ”

- John Pilger

“ Children really brighten up a household. They never turn the lights off. ”

- Ralph Bus

“ Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit. ”

- John Dryden

“ The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him. ”

- Crystal Eastman

“ America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet. ”

- Dick Gregory

“ Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household. ”

- Wilhelm von Humboldt

“ One sometimes feels a guest of one's time and not a member of its household. ”

- George F. Kennan

“ A household where a total unawareness of the world of ideas not only existed but was regarded as a matter for congratulation. ”

- Osbert Lancaster

“ When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why. ”

- Katharine Whitehorn

“ You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne. ”

- Miguel de Cervantes

“ Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet? ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the wall of our own homes. ”

- Harold B. Lee

“ A house is not a home. ”

- Polly Adler

“ To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life. ”

- Robert Burns

“ The obvious market size is 40 million households. There's probably a sweet spot of 20% to 25% today that are the demographics you're looking for. ”

- Bob Greene

“ I hardly ever go out when I'm home. ”

- Brooke Burke

“ HOUSELESS, adj. Having paid all taxes on household goods. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else. ”

- James Thorpe

“ My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. ”

- Erma Bombeck

“ Faith is hidden household capital. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Few men have been admired by their own households. ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“ For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison. ”

- Theodore Roosevelt

“ Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people, and what do you always find? That the stables are the real center of the household. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Nature meant for me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit. ”

- John Dryden

“ Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother. ”

- Beverly Jones

“ Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household. ”

- Erica Jong

“ The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege. ”

- Sir Arthur Helps

“ The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us. ”

- Vernon Howard
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