Gammy used to say "Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things."

Betty MacDonald
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't. - Steve Maraboli

  2. The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they have no control over. - Steve Maraboli

  3. How would your life be different if… You stopped worrying about things you can’t control and started focusing on the things you can? Let today be the day… You free yourself from fruitless worry, seize the day and take effective action on things you can... - Steve Maraboli

  4. I choose to write because it's perfect for me. It's an escape, a place I can go to hide. It's a friend, when I feel out casted from everyone else. It's a journal, when the only story I can tell is my own. <span style="margin:15px;... - Alysha Speer

  5. Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. - Unknown

More Quotes By Betty MacDonald
  1. There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.

  2. Her magic formula for dealing with children is ignoring all faults and accenting tiny virtues. She says, "Instead of telling Tommy day in and day out that he is the naughtiest boy in the United States of America, which could very well be true, take...

  3. Of course the reason that all the children in our town like Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is because Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle likes children, she enjoys talking to them and best of all they do not irritate her.

  4. When Molly O'Toole was looking at the colored pictures in Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's big dictionary and just happened to be eating a candy cane at the same time and drooled candy cane juice on the colored pictures of gems and then forgot and shut the book...

  5. Miss Appleby, her library books, and her story-telling sessions were very popular with all the children in Heavenly Valley. To Nancy and Plum they were a magic carpet that whisked them out of the dreariness and drudgery of their lives at Mrs. Monday's and transported...

Related Topics