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, “Nought for Homework,” Roundabout, 1962
Instead of organizing and cleaning my house, I pin ideas on how to organize and clean my house. The irony is not lost on me. – Author unknown (but obviously a Pinterest user with a sense of humor)
There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse. – Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant, 1968
There is only one way in which a person acquires a new idea: by the combination or association of two or more ideas he already has into a new juxtaposition in such a manner as to discover a relationship among them of which he was not previously aware. – Francis A. Cartier
From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today. – John Hoeven
