Housework Quotes
103 quotes by 81 authors
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Housework is like cleaning fish. No matter how often you do it, it still stinks.
— Unknown Author
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The key to success is to do the next right thing right.
— Don Meyer
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I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate.
— Unknown Author
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It's sad but true that if you focus your attention on housework and meal preparation and diapers, raising children does start to look like drudgery…
— Joyce Maynard
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Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it I swear I will never do it again. Until the next time company comes.
— Marilyn Sokol
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I do my housework in the nude. It gives me an incentive to clean the mirrors as quickly as possible.
— Maxine
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I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.
— Shirley Conran
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Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.
— Oscar Wilde
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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
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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…
— Margaret Mead
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Mothers, are you so busy with social life, [with projects], with clubs, with working out of the home, or with housework, that you have not…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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Once you get married, women are still implicitly expected to do the majority of the housework and take care of any future children.
— Jessica Valenti
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The washing of dishes does seem to me the most absurd and unsatisfactory business that I ever undertook. If, when once washed, they would remain…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to…
— Margaret Mead
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We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house.
— Robert Breault
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Always keep your home presentable, assuming you keep a home for purposes of presentation.
— Robert Breault
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Dirt is matter in the wrong place.
— Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
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My parents were very well-off, but we didn't have a crazy-huge house. We didn't have thousands of workers and staff; it was just my mum…
— Petra Stunt
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There is no such thing as a self-cleaning oven.
— Wes Smith
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Like plowing, housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if beer cans litter…
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Who Wrote These Housework Quotes
81 authors contributed a total of 103 Housework Quotes, led by these top contributors: