Aesop, that master storyteller of old, told this fable A jar of honey was upset in a housekeeper's room, and a number of flies were attracted by its sweetness. Placing their feet in it, the flies ate greedily. Their feet, however, became so smeared with honey that they could not use their wings, nor release themselves, and they were suffocated. Just as they were dying, they exclaimed 'Oh, foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves.'
Quotes about housekeepers (4 Quotes)
Houses are always the liveliest and all that sort of thing when the woman isnt one of those awfully good housekeepers.
But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.