Quotes with ale-house

Quotes 241 till 260 of 320.

  • Mary McCarthy The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer and poet (1860 - 1935)
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  • Kahlil Gibran The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Sir Arthur Helps The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.
    Sir Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean of the Privy Council (1813 - 1875)
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  • Audre Lorde The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Barbara Corcoran The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Bill Dedman The Obama administration is fighting to block access to names of visitors to the White House, taking up the Bush administration argument that a president doesn't have to reveal who comes calling to influence policy decisions.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Annie Leibovitz The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Caleb Cushing The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Daniel Webster The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly; in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.
    Daniel Webster
    American lawyer and statesman (1782 - 1852)
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  • Bill McKibben The roof of my house is covered in solar panels. When I'm home, I'm a pretty green fellow.
    Bill McKibben
    American environmentalist, author, and journalist (1960 - )
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  • Adolf Loos The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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  • Busy Philipps The rugs that I picked out and the pillows with the little owls, sort of like whimsical throw pillows - I feel like you can never enough whimsical throw pillows in your house, in your life. My husband probably disagrees.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • A. E. Housman The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Barbara Boxer The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Caleb Cushing The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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