Quotes of Housemaid - somelinesforyou

“ Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ If I'd been a housemaid, I'd have been the best in Australia-I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me. ”

- Nellie Melba

“ People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid. ”

- Henry James

“ Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden. ”

- Karl Kraus

“ Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ Hunger is the handmaid of genius. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not. ”

- Horace

“ Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ The Handmaiden of the Sciences. ”

- Eric Temple Bell

“ Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil. ”

- Branch Rickey
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