“ I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog. ”
- John Pilger- Copy
- 690
“ Children really brighten up a household. They never turn the lights off. ”
- Ralph Bus- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
- 1.2K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.8K
“ America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet. ”
- Dick Gregory- Copy
- 1.6K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.2K
“ One sometimes feels a guest of one's time and not a member of its household. ”
- George F. Kennan- Copy
- 2.8K
“ A household where a total unawareness of the world of ideas not only existed but was regarded as a matter for congratulation. ”
- Osbert Lancaster- Copy
- 3K
“ 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- Copy
- 228
“ You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne. ”
- Miguel de Cervantes- Copy
- 2.6K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.3K
“ The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the wall of our own homes. ”
- Harold B. Lee- Copy
- 2.3K
“ To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life. ”
- Robert Burns- Copy
- 3.3K
“ 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- Copy
- 293
“ Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else. ”
- James Thorpe- Copy
- 3.4K
“ My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. ”
- Erma Bombeck- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Few men have been admired by their own households. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
- 921
“ 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- Copy
- 445
“ 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- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Nature meant for me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother. ”
- Beverly Jones- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household. ”
- Erica Jong- Copy
- 282
“ 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- Copy
- 342
“ 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- Copy
- 856
“ 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- Copy
- 3.3K
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