Housework Quotes

103 quotes by 81 authors

Housework is like cleaning fish. No matter how often you do it, it still stinks. — Unknown Author
The key to success is to do the next right thing right. — Don Meyer
I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate. — Unknown Author
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
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
I do my housework in the nude. It gives me an incentive to clean the mirrors as quickly as possible. — Maxine
I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. — Shirley Conran
Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt. — Oscar Wilde
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Always keep your home presentable, assuming you keep a home for purposes of presentation. — Robert Breault
Dirt is matter in the wrong place. — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
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
There is no such thing as a self-cleaning oven. — Wes Smith
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

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