Housewifely Quotes & Sayings

My heart is so tired — Rudyard Kipling

If he thinks he can "STEP IT UP" in games, he needs to start stepping it up in practice. The athletes that have peak performances on a consistent basis are the athletes that don't change their intensity and focus from practice to games. They go all out in practice to make practice more game-like, so that they can make the games more practice-like. — Brian Cain

Check to make sure your brake lights and blinkers work.... — Michael J. DiPinto

But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended. — Elizabeth Peters

If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another. — B.B. King

Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or anti-social) characteristic of our age: public drunkenness, excessive gambling, promiscuity and common-or-garden rudeness are all examples of our collective loss of self-control. — Theodore Dalrymple

Solving problems - actually solving them, not just claiming you do - solving perceived, urgent problems, is a surefire way to get the world to beat a path to your door. — Seth Godin

I think the important thing about sisters is that they share the same minute, familiar life-style, the same little sets of rules. Therefore they can keep house with each other late in life, because they share the same bunch of housewifely prejudices. The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups. — Margaret Mead

Black Mage: I was joking.
Red Mage: OH. See, I was confused by the total lack of comedy. — Brian Clevinger

The meter said six pounds, so I passed a ten pound note through the window and watched a fifteen-second production of 'I'm Not Sure I've Got Change For That', starring licensed cab driver 99102, before getting out and heading back down the street. — Hugh Laurie

I'd been interested in animal behaviour as a teenager and had thought of studying it at one point. — Michelle Paver

Washed clean like a porcelain, with housewifely care ... — Marcel Proust

Avoid outshining the master. All superiority is odious, but the superiority of a subject over his prince is not only stupid, it is fatal. This is a lesson that the stars in the sky teach us - they may be related to the sun, and just as brilliant, but they never appear in her company. — Baltasar Gracian