Household management
idea · 2 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
estate · home · house · household · household duties · households · housekeeping · looking after the house · manage his household · management
in the texts
Memorabilia
Skill in managing households and estates, linked with education, usefulness, and agreement.
These excellent beings he recognised by their quickness to learn whatever subject they studied, ability to remember what they learned, and desire for every kind of knowledge on which depend good management of a household and estate and tactful dealing with men and the affairs of men.
but without agreement no city can be made a good city, no house can be made a prosperous house.
Surely, Euthydemus, you don’t covet the kind of excellence that makes good statesmen and managers, competent rulers and benefactors of themselves and mankind in general?
Economics
The practical art of ordering a home, preserving goods, directing labor, training workers, and making the household useful.
So I charged my wife to consider herself guardian of the laws to our household.
Did you yourself train your wife to be of the right sort, or did she know her household duties when you received her from her parents?
and, so far from having cause to fear that as you grow older you may be less honoured in the household, to feel confident that with advancing years, the better partner you prove to me and the better housewife to our children, the greater will be the honour paid to you in our home.