Housework Quotes
The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.
- Kin Hubbard
Housekeeping ain’t no joke.
– Louisa May Alcott
Dull women have immaculate homes.
– Anonymous
Nature abhors a vacuum. And so do I.
- Anne Gibbons
At my house, “Dust” is a noun, not a verb.
- Anonymous
Marrying is easy it’s housework that’s hard.
- Proverb
Housework, if it is done right, can kill you.
- John Skow
A spotless house is a sign of a misspent life.
– Anonymous
Creative clutter is better than idle neatness.
- Anonymous
I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.
– Phyllis Diller
Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.
– Mario Buatta
Housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance?
– Phyllis Diller
I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.
– Shirley Conran
Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.
– Oscar Wilde
Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.
– Marcelene Cox
A man’s home is his castle, and his wife is the janitor.
– Lucille Kallen
I can’t clean house and save the world at the same time.
- Anonymous
You won’t do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
- Kate Millett
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
- Bette Midler
I think housework is the reason most women go to the office.
- Heloise Cruse
God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done.
- Anonymous
Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they’re ended.
- Colley Cibber
You don’t get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
- Cecil Baxter
At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
– Rose Macaulay
I will clean house when Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.
– Roseanne Barr
I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn.
- C.E. Cowman
The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I’ve ever seen that I didn’t have to clean.
- Erma Bombeck
Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.
– Beverly Jones
Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn’t done it.
– Evan Esar
A bright person can always think of something better to do than housework.
– Ruby Lou Barnhill
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
– Erica Jong
Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.
– Ann Oakley
If you want to see me, come over anytime. If you want to see my house, make an appointment.
- Anonymous
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
– A.A. Milne
I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I’d never do that. Dave does the cooking.
- Siobhan Fahey
Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
– Erma Bombeck
My husband and I have figured out a really good system about the housework: neither one of us does it.
– Dottie Archibald
There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.
- Quentin Crisp
Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?
– Katherine Whitehorn
I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.
- Joan Rivers


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