Housework Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

22 Housework Quotes
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“My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance”
Erma Bombeck Quotes
“There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.”
Quentin Crisp Quotes
“I think housework is the reason most women go to the office.”
Penny Kome Quotes
“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day”
Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
“My husband and I have figured out a really good system about the housework: neither one of us does it”
Dottie Archibald Quotes
“Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it”
Evan Esar Quotes
“The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters--from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number--a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.”
Crystal Eastman Quotes
“They shared the chores of living as some couples do--she did most of the work and he appreciated it.”
Paula Gosling Quotes
“The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do it is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty-four hours.”
Lady Hasluck Quotes
“Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?”
Katherine Whitehorn Quotes
“Housekeeping ain't no joke.”
Louis May Alcott Quotes
“A man's home is his castle, and his wife is the janitor.”
Lucille Kallen Quotes
“Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.”
Marcelene Cox Quotes
“I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.”
Phyllis Diller Quotes
“At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.”
Rose Macaulay Quotes
“I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.”
Shirley Conran Quotes
“If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, "Who could have done this? we have no enemies.".”
Phyllis Diller Quotes
“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 Quotes
“I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. There's no use doing it now, it doesn't fit anybody I know.”
Phyllis Diller Quotes
“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 when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.”
Margaret Mead Quotes
“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
“I will clean house when Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.”
Roseanne Barr Quotes