Quotes by Marcelene Cox

• When a man does a household job, he goes through three periods: contemplating how it will be done; contemplating when it will be done; and contemplating.
• Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.
• The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her.
• Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
• Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.
• Life begins when a person first realizes how soon it will end.
• No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.
• Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.
• Eating without conversation is only stoking.
• Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
• A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by a mother who sees that the others get it.
• A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren't robbed of their luster in keeping it that way.
• One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.
• If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents.