Quotes About Maintenance

Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

... the sort of smiles used at weddings, turned on very carefully to half pressure to prevent them wearing out.

Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.

maintenance budgets are among the very first things to go.

First, in almost every part of Great Britain there is a distinction, even in the lowest species of labour, between summer and winter wages. Summer wages are always highest. But on account of the extraordinary expense of fuel, the maintenance of a family is most expensive in winter. Wages, therefore, being highest when this expense is lowest, it seems evident that they are not regulated by what is necessary for this expense; but by the quantity and supposed value of the work.

The Prestige of Laundry

at Terrible. The third-rate 74 did indeed appear badly worn, her masts slanted from

The main sitting-room is large, and though certainly not dirty it is not particularly clean. … [Lewis] never bothers with ashtrays but flicks his cigarette ash … on to the carpet wherever he happens to be standing or sitting. He even absurdly maintains that ash is good for carpets.

Around this time, I decided to go back to the bathroom and, oh, I don't know, wash my hands, brush my hair, maybe pluck my eyebrows. Stuff.

maintainence is elegance. Diana Vreeland. vogue magazine 1984.

My boyfriend, like a lot of men, takes great pride in his car. Honey, his car is detailed, waxed, and vacuumed weekly. On the other hand, my car looks like a really big purse.

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.

In Nora's heart lay the fossil of Robin, intaglio of her identity, and about it for its maintenance ran Nora's blood. Thus the body of Robin could never be unloved, corrupt or put away. Robin was now beyond timely changes, except in the blood that animated her.

As a kid, I had my head under the hood of a car, either an old Ford or a Chevrolet, just learning about it so if anything happened, I could repair it.

He tells his guys, you change the oil in a Nissan, you just can't kill it. You'll die before that car will.

You either spend your life preparing or you spend your life repairing.

Anything you don't water, anything you don't take care of in your life, is going to die.

That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away.

Today about 95% of the prescription drugs sold are Maintenance drugs-drugs that treat only the symptoms of a disease, and that you are expected to take for the rest of your life.

Your body is a vehicle of your emotions and a vehicle of feelings and a vehicle of whatever you need to get done in life. And you've got to take care of that vehicle.

Keep your own house and its surroundings pure and clean. This hygiene will keep you healthy and benefit your worldly life.

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.

A bachelor May thrive by observation on a little, A single life's no burthen: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and will require A double maintenance.