One who is serious all day will never have a good time, while one who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.
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Maxim no. 25.Ptahhotep
The frivolous can call me frivolous.
I’ve always been most punctilious about
important things. And I insist
that no one knows better than I do
the Holy Fathers, or the Scriptures, or the Canons of the Councils.Constantine P. Cavafy
He is not a household name. He is something rarer: a name savored by household names. Goethe, who corresponded with Lichtenberg, admired him greatly (even though Lichtenberg disputed his theory of color).
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Since I have an aversion to movies in which people say grace at the dinner table (not to the practice but to how movies use it to establish the moral strength of a household), the opening night montage of Sunday-night supper in one home after another in Waxahachie, Texas in 1935 — a whole community saying grace — made me expect the worst.
Pauline Kael
A good household manager, but not fit to meddle in the affairs of kings.
Thomas Cromwell
A guest of one's time and not a member of its household.
George F. Kennan
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