A bright person can always think of something better to do than housework. -
Ruby Lou Barnhill
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is
to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days. -
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
A man’s home is his castle, and his wife is the janitor. -
Lucille Kallen
A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the
birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. - James Dent
A spotless house is a sign of a misspent life. - Anonymous
At my house, “Dust” is a noun, not a verb. - Anonymous
At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived. - Rose
Macaulay
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk
before it stops snowing. - Phyllis Diller
Creative clutter is better than idle neatness. - Anonymous
Dull women have immaculate homes. - Anonymous
Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture. - Mario Buatta
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless
repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over,
day after day. - Simone de Beauvoir
For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple
monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an
assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he
tightened a bolt. - Edit Mendel Stern
God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done. -
Anonymous
Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not a
piece of advice, it is merely a custom. - Mark Twain
Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become,
relatively, the cleaner thing? - Katherine Whitehorn
Housekeeping ain’t no joke. - Louisa May Alcott
Housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance? - Phyllis Diller
Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door. -
Marcelene Cox
Housework, if you do it right, can kill you. - Erma Bombeck
Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and
counter productivity. - Erma Bombeck
Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn’t done it. -
Evan Esar
Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human
self-actualization. - Ann Oakley
I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn. -
C.E.
Cowman
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
I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard. - Phyllis Diller
I can’t clean house and save the world at the same time. -
Anonymous
I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade.
It’s amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor. -
D.H.
Lawrence
I hate housework. You make the beds, you wash the dishes and six months later
you have to start all over again. - Joan Rivers
I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep
beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you’re going to be lazy. -
Shirley Conran
I thank the Lord I no longer have to go to work. I just get out of bed in the
morning, and there it is - all around me. - Anonymous
I think housework is the reason most women go to the office. -
Heloise Cruse
I will clean house when Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner. -
Roseanne
Barr
I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. - Shirley Conran
I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot
of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for
the paper I wrote it down on. - Anonymous
If you are a writer, you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter
what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be
writing, because you have that space. - Joyce Carol Oates
If you want to see me, come over anytime. If you want to see my house, make an
appointment. - Anonymous
If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door, greet him with,
“Who could have done this? We have no enemies.” - Phyllis Diller
I’m eighteen years behind in my ironing. There’s no use doing it now, it doesn’t
fit anybody I know. - Phyllis Diller
Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after
her husband has walked across it in his barn boots. - Hoosier Farmer
Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt. -
Oscar Wilde
Marrying is easy - it’s housework that’s hard. - Proverb
My husband and I have figured out a really good system about the housework:
neither one of us does it. - Dottie Archibald
My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance. -
Anonymous
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors. -
Bette Midler
My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on
the top bunk bed until I faint. - Erma Bombeck
My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or
block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you? -
Erma Bombeck
Nature abhors a vacuum. And so do I. - Anne Gibbons
Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother. -
Beverly Jones
Old houses mended,
Cost little less than new before they’re ended. - Colley Cibber
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making
exciting discoveries. - A.A. Milne
One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duck tape to make
them stop. G.M. Weilacher
People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so
on, but nothing’s as eternal as the dishes. - Margaret Mahy
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth
household. - Erica Jong
Said the daughter: “I don’t have to help my Mom with the housework. She knows
how.” - Anonymous
The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters -
from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer’s telephone number - a sort of
cheerful inefficiency which protects him. - Crystal Eastman
The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes. -
Agatha
Christie
The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.
- Kin Hubbard
The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep
house. It’s one reason why they don’t die, but men die when they retire. Women
just polish the teacups. - Margaret Mead
The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil
that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed,
toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process. -
Mary McCarthy
The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth
than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in
society. But so are horses. - Charlotte P. Gillman
The obvious and fair solution to the housework problem is to let men do the
housework for, say, the next six thousand years, to even things up. The trouble
is that men, over the years, have developed an inflated notion of the importance
of everything they do, so that before long they would turn housework into just
as much of a charade as business is now. They would hire secretaries and buy
computers and fly off to housework conferences in Bermuda, but they’d never
clean anything. - Dave Barry
The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I’ve ever seen that I didn’t have to clean. -
Erma Bombeck
The scorn men express for a male who does housework is exceeded only by their
aversion to a woman who doesn’t. - Penny Kome
The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do it is
destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty-four hours. -
Lady Hasluck
There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt
doesn’t get any worse. - Quentin Crisp
There’s nothing to match curling up with a good book when there’s a repair job
to be done around the house. - Joe Ryan
They shared the chores of living as some couples do - she did most of the work
and he appreciated it. - Paula Gosling
This is a honeydew day. That is when you get a day off and the wife says,
"Honey, do this," and "Honey, do that" around the house. -
Jim Lemon
Three-fourths of the Earth’s surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is
quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time
fishing as taking care of the lawn. - Chuck Clark
When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can
ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why. - Katharine Whitehorn
You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century
and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of
housekeeping. - Rudyard Kipling
You wonder if I have it. I wonder where it is. Everybody wonders how I find it.
- Anonymous
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