Home Management Quotes

I simply love doing household chores and cooking.

I can take care of a house, and some people I meet, I think, 'You don't even know how to make a bed.'

What really does work to increase the feeling of having a home and its comforts is housekeeping. Housekeeping creates cleanliness, order, regularity, beauty, the conditions for health and safety, and a good place to do and feel all the things you wish and need to do and feel in your home. Whether you live alone or with a spouse, parents, and ten children, it is your housekeeping that makes your home alive, that turns it into a small society in its own right, a vital place with its own ways and rhythms, the place where you can be more yourself than you can be anywhere else.

My wife would probably say I'm the messiest person in the history of husbands.

I'm a real Suzy Homemaker.

The department of home economics was organized to train a woman in efficiency and to develop her outlook to life. Such a department is a necessity as a means of developing a society. It stands for the evolution of women's work and place.

I do most of the cooking. I'm kind of domestic, untidily so.

Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.

Appeles us'd to paint a good housewife upon a snayl; which intimated that she should be as slow from gadding abroad, and when she went she should carry her house upon her back; that is, she should make all sure at home.

it occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it work. It's just reality. Just housework. Just a home. Like running a simple machine. Once you learn to run it, it's just a matter of repetition. You push this button and pull that lever. You adjust a gauge, put on the lid, set the timer. The same thing, over and over.

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.

Apple is developing a service called Home Kit that will allow people to operate gadgets like garage openers and thermostats through one app. In related news, please don't tell my parents about this. I can't be explaining this stuff every week.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Housewives run the home and sacrifice a lot, but many people forget that.

I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.

I'm not a natural employer. I live very privately, and we like our privacy at home. To be sitting and talking with your wife or your family and to have somebody walking around and you're ignoring them, I couldn't handle that at all. I can barely handle a cleaning lady coming in every so often.

Hosting is work. It means you don't get to go up to your room and disappear and take a nap. Like everybody else does after lunch. I'm talking about hosting, not hosting a dinner party, but hosting people staying in your home.

I'm really domestic.

Ultimate Goal: A world where women run half our countries and companies and half our homes.

I learned how to cook and do a lot of marital things.

I'm having trouble managing the mansion. What I need is a wife.

Learn how to regulate one's own house well.

I've seen wonderful stay-at-home moms and moms who could use a little improving.

Like plowing, housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if beer cans litter the living room. The family isn't likely to have breakfast together if somebody didn't remember to buy eggs, milk, or muffins. Housework maintains an orderly setting in which family life can flourish.