Chores Quotes
130 Chores quotes by 111 unique authors
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I have fun writing. I don't make it a chore. I don't have to struggle with it.
— Elmore Leonard
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I do chores around the house, but I don't get an allowance for them. I wash the dishes and sweep the floor... I'm sweeping the…
— Callan McAuliffe
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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
— Bette Midler
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As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to be alone, to…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of…
— A. N. Wilson
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Housework can kill you if done right.
— Erma Bombeck
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Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days.
— Henry Miller
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Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on…
— Erma Bombeck
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If you have to dry the dishes (Such an awful boring chore) If you have to dry the dishes ('Stead of going to the store)…
— Shel Silverstein
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I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.
— Roseanne Barr
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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
— Erma Bombeck
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Noise and crowds have a way of siphoning our energy and distracting our attention, making prayer an added chore rather than a comforting relief
— Charles R. Swindoll
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On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become…
— Og Mandino
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Of course, I'm being rude. I'm spoiling the ending, not only of the entire book, but of this particular piece of it. I have given…
— Markus Zusak
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normal person's weekly chore list: 1. clean kitchen. 2. clean bathroom. 3. clean entire rest of domicile. cleaning impaired person's weekly chore list: 1. don't…
— Dave Barry
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I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all.…
— Toni Morrison
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If getting our kids out into nature is a search for perfection, or is one more chore, then the belief in perfection and the chore…
— Richard Louv
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So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.
— Dr. Seuss
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I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make every chore a penance. I find…
— John Kennedy Toole
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It is harder for women, perhaps to be 'one-pointed,' much harder for them to clear space around whatever it is they want to do beyond…
— May Sarton
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It has often been said there’s so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head. So the writer who…
— Dr. Seuss
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You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist. You can make the work a chore, or you can have a good…
— Anne Lamott
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Do you know what separates adults from children? Self-discipline. We don’t want to go to work, we don’t want to do our chores, and we…
— Ilona Andrews
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Reading is not work, not a chore, not a drudgery; reading is the most joyful thing, yet, in the world.
— James Patterson
Who Wrote These Chores Quotes
111 authors contributed a total of 130 Chores Quotes, led by these top contributors: