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Quotes About Maintenance

An outside toilet occupied one corner, its door half-open. 'He's not been here long enough to accumulate much crap
~ Val McDermid
People down south had no idea how clean an outhouse could be if you took care of it.
~ Kristin Hannah
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
~ Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
The most important piece of furniture in a house is the garbage can.
~ lagerfeld karl ii
I think the biggest thing is clean as you go. Wash all your knives, cutting boards, dishes, when you are done cooking, not look at a sink full of dishes after you are done. Cleaning as you go helps keep away cross contamination and you avoid having food borne bacteria.
~ Cat Cora
You know, a cell phone's like a guy; if you don't plug him in every night, charge him good, you got nothing at all.
~ Catherine Coulter
well-tended lawn. The swings and slide
~ Cathy McDavid
Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion by maintained by it.
~ Germaine Greer
L'energia è il potere che guida ogni essere umano. Non viene persa con l'impiego ma mantenuta dallo stesso, perché è una facoltà della psiche.
~ Germaine Greer
My dad says fine tools always get fine care.
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
I really am super lazy and doing long hair, especially mine, is a big pain in the butt. It's filled with cowlicks and kinks and curls and frizz - and it was taking too much time in the morning.
~ Ginnifer Goodwin
disregarding maintenance schedules and failing to adhere to regulators and manufacturers regulations are other surreptitious ways of saving money. 
~ Glenn Meade
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
~ Martin Golding, unverified
Most motorcycle problems are caused by the nut that connects the handlebars to the saddle.
~ Author Unknown
Housework is something you do that nobody notices until you don't do it.
~ Author Unknown
...there was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
~ Quentin Crisp
Th' feller that owns his own home is allus jist comin' out o' a hardware store.
~ Kin Hubbard ("Abe Martin")
I am thankful for a lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning and gutters that need fixing because it means I have a home... I am thankful for the piles of laundry and ironing because it means my loved ones are nearby.
~ Nancie J. Carmody
Cleanliness is next to impossible.
~ Author Unknown
I dusted once. It came back. I'm not falling for that again.
~ Internet meme
Leaf-blowers: Loudly making yardwork someone else's problem since the 1960s.
~ Christopher Patrick, 2017
Please don't feed the dust bunnies.
~ Author Unknown
Twenty-nine cents of every tax dollar collected is spent on law enforcement. Fifteen cents of every tax dollar collected is spent on sewage collection and treatment. Eight cents of every tax dollar collected is spent on road maintenance. One-point-five cents of every tax dollar collected is spent on education.
~ James Frey
If you thought car maintenance was covered by Uncle Sam and you never saw a bill, what would keep your from getting new brakes every few months?
~ Lisa Kennedy Montgomery