Household Chores Quotes

• I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.

  Roseanne Barr

  Mom, Mother, Clever

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• My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Mom, Mother

  Erma Bombeck (2011). “I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression”, p.96, Fawcett

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• Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.

  Evan Esar

  Inspirational, Home, Doe

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• The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

  Agatha Christie

  Time, Book, Memorable

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

  Ann Oakley

  Inspirational, Self, Cleaning

  Ann Oakley (1974). “Woman's work: the housewife, past and present”, Vintage

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• My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works.

  Devon Werkheiser

  Acting, Way, Cleaning

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• No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting.

  Emily Oster

  Fighting, People, Doe

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• Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores - it's called partnership.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Husband, Women, Today

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• My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

  Erma Bombeck

  Ideas, Rooms, Cleaning

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• Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.

  Mark Twain

  Sarcastic, Somewhere Else, Advice

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.74, Courier Corporation

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  I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.

  Joan Rivers

  Funny, Hilarious, Hate

  Quoted in Michele Brown and Ann O'Connor, Woman Talk (1984)

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• My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

  Bette Midler

  Ideas, Cleaning, Superwoman

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• 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

  Tasks, Cleaning, Endless

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• I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

  Shirley Conran

  Lying, Lazy, Secret

  Shirley Conran (1978). “Superwoman”, Outlet

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• I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. There's no use doing it now, it doesn't fit anybody I know.

  Phyllis Diller

  Years, Use, Cleaning

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  Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Hilarious, Witty

  Phyllis Diller (2006). “Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy”, p.77, Penguin

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• 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

  Doors, House, Enemy

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• Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Women, Taken, Clothes

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• There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

  Quentin Crisp

  Funny, Kids, Years

  Naked Civil Servant (1968) ch. 15

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• By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Mothers Day, Mom, Motherhood

  Gift from the Sea ch. 3 (1955)

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• More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself.

  John Thorn

  Dream, Home, Past

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• They shared the chores of living as some couples do-she did most of the work and he appreciated it.

  Paula Gosling

  Couple, Appreciated, Chores

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• Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

  Phyllis Diller

  Growing Up, Children, Silly

  Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints (1966)

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• One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

  A. A. Milne

  Life, Cute, Science

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Book, Mean, Management

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