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| You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping. ~ Rudyard Kipling |
| My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. ~ Erma Bombeck |
| Nature abhors a vacuum. And so do I. ~ Anne Gibbons |
| Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. ~ Phyllis Diller, |
| Housework is something you do that nobody notices until you don’t do it. ~ Author Unknown |
| Our house is clean enough to be healthy, and dirty enough to be happy. ~ Author Unknown |
| Don’t cook. Don’t clean. No man will ever make love to a woman because she waxed the linoleum – "My God, the floor’s immaculate. Lie down, you hot bitch." ~ Joan Rivers |
| The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I’ve ever seen that I didn’t have to clean. ~ Erma Bombeck |
| I think housework is the reason most women go to the office. ~ Heloise Cruse |
| I’m not going to vacuum until Sears makes one you can ride on. ~ Roseanne Barr |
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| The trouble with living alone is that it’s always your turn to do the dishes. ~ Author Unknown |
| There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse. ~ Quentin Crisp, |
| Housework, if it is done right, can kill you. ~ John Skow |
| The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes. ~ Agatha Christie |
| Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner. ~ Author Unknown |
| The obvious and fair solution to the housework problem is to let men do the housework for, say, the next six thousand years, to even things up. The trouble is that men, over the years, have developed an inflated notion of the importance of everything they do, so that before long they would turn housework into just as much of a charade as business is now. They would hire secretaries and buy computers and fly off to housework conferences in Bermuda, but they’d never clean anything. ~ Dave Barry |
| I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn. ~ C.E. Cowman |
| There’s nothing to match curling up with a good book when there’s a repair job to be done around the house. ~ Joe Ryan |
| The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store. ~ Kin Hubbard |
| My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you? ~ Erma Bombeck |
| You don’t get anything clean without getting something else dirty. ~ Cecil Baxter |
| A clean house is the sign of a boring person. ~ Author Unknown |
| 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 Brault |
| I enjoy mowing the lawn, it relaxes me. It gets me outdoors, it’s good exercise, the freshly cut grass smells great, and the engine is loud enough that I’m sure no one else can hear my thoughts – or intrude upon them. ~ Astrid Alauda |
Old houses mended,
Cost little less than new before they’re ended.
~ Colley Cibber |
| Cleanliness is next to impossible. ~ Author Unknown |
They’re sure housework won’t kill you, but why take the risk? Author Unknown
Vacuums don’t clean houses. People clean houses. ~ Everybody Loves Raymond |
| When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why. ~ Katharine Whitehorn, "Nought for Homework," |
| This mess is a place! ~ Author Unknown |
| My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors. ~ Bette Midler |