Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that you

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Other quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face… we must do that which we think we cannot. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses — once! – Oscar Wilde

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The ornaments of your home are the people who smile upon entering time and time again. – Maralee McKee

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Staying with people consists in your not having your own way, and their not having theirs. – Maarten Maartens

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Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. – Benjamin Franklin

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God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live. – Stephen King

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For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home. – W.J. Ronald Tucker

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Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep. – Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, 1750

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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. – George Smith Patton, War as I Knew It, 1947

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