My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply…

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

— Ann Oakley

Spring is the usual period for house-cleaning and removing the dust and dirt which, notwithstanding all precautions, will accumulate during the winter months from…

— Isabella Beeton

Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?

— Katharine Whitehorn

Did you ever notice all the items on a honey do list are dangerous. Clean gutters, put light in shower, patch roof. It's a…

— Bill Engvall

After living with Richard, I discovered that men are only good at cleaning stuff they can hose down.

— Linda Sunshine

Housework is like cleaning fish. No matter how often you do it, it still stinks.

— Thelma Harper

“They cooked and washed dishes and scrubbed and mopped and dusted and wiped and cleaned the apartment from crack to crevice back to crack.”

— Matthew Aaron Goodman

Even when couples share more equitably in the work at home, women do two-thirds of the daily jobs at home, like cooking and cleaning…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean,…

— Simone de Beauvoir

If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, 'Who could have done this? We have…

— Phyllis Diller

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean,…

— Simone de Beauvoir

My son would walk to the refrigerator-freezer and fling both doors open and stand there until the hairs in his nose iced up. After…

— Erma Bombeck

The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I've ever seen that I didn't have to clean.

— Erma Bombeck

Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.

— Erma Bombeck

Housework can kill you if done right.

— Erma Bombeck