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Quotes About Routine

The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four.
~ C. S. Lewis
Outside of a teapot life is but thousands of dusty affairs.
~ Terri Guillemets
It's hard getting away from the office when you work from home.
~ Mike Baldwin, Cornered, 2007
Every day a thread makes a skein in the year.
~ Dutch proverb
Not sure if it's Tuesday or just a second Monday.
~ Internet meme
Taco Tuesday is followed by Whiskey Wednesday and Thirsty Thursday.
~ Internet meme
Nothing ruins a Friday like realizing it's only Wednesday.
~ Internet meme
Wednesdays are like Mondays in the middle of the week!
~ Lee Fox Williams, unverified
You have casual Fridays. Those of us who work at home have shaveless Mondays… deodorantless Tuesdays… sockless Wednesdays… and of course, topless Thursdays.
~ Rob Harrell, Adam@Home, 1996
* Monday * Tuesday * Wednesday * Thursday * Friday * I blinked * Monday
~ Internet meme
On weekends my coffee is recreational, as opposed to weekdays when it's medicinal.
~ Author Unknown
Suburban life is merely motherhood on wheels.
~ Peter De Vries, in LIFE, 1956
The man with the best job in the country is the vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How's the President?"
~ Will Rogers (1879–1935)
I need to do some social distancing from the refrigerator.
~ Internet meme, March 2020
I used to spin the toilet paper like I was on Wheel of Fortune. Now I turn it like I'm cracking a safe.
~ Internet meme, March 2020
Today is the longest day of the year—but anymore, every day is.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Diary, 2003
Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
~ Elbert Hubbard
teaching itself no longer spoke to her heart. Not in the uncomplicated way that her sock-sorting did.
~ Hallie Ephron
Security and safety were the reward of dullness.
~ Hanif Kureishi
There was a perception that life here was-I won't say gray, that's hard for me-but beige.
~ Hanna Holborn Gray
Unser Leben ist eingeengt von zahllosen Gewohnheiten, an die man sich halten muss, wenn man zur Horde gehören will.
~ Hans Bemmann
Coffee black, water tap, whisky neat.
~ Haris naeem dhoraji
Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.
~ Harlan Coben
With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
~ Harper Lee