Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

It wasn’t so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it’s just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.

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

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

When I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

There’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.

I can’t see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That’s terrible.

Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support – a significant problem in the software industry.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

I do the dishes every night – other people volunteer, but I like the way I do it.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

My momma didn’t clean up floors so I could be a thug… so I could wear my pants down.

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, ‚A house guest,‘ you’re wrong because I have just described my kids.

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

You listen to the radio and all the songs sound the same, from 8 in the morning to 12.

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.

Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.

I love to clean.

Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

‚No comment‘ is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.