Housework Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  79 Copy quote

  Show source

• The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.

  Kin Hubbard

  Home, Coming Out, Stores

  87 Copy quote

• I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.

  Shirley Conran

  Lying, Sofas, Chores

  Shirley Conran (1978). “Superwoman”, Outlet

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Dirt, Made

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (more than 150 Works)”, p.1722, e-artnow

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Women, Taken, Clothes

  23 Copy quote

• The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I've ever seen that I didn't have to clean.

  Erma Bombeck

  Football, Funny Inspirational, College

  11 Copy quote

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

  Roseanne Barr

  Mom, Mother, Clever

  67 Copy quote

• The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Horse, Men, House

  Women and Economics ch. 1 (1898)

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• Conran's Law of Housework - it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour.

  Shirley Conran

  Home, Law, House

  Shirley Conran (1978). “Superwoman”, Outlet

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Los Angeles Times Home Magazine, February 20, 1977.

  49 Copy quote

  Show source

• Dirt is matter in the wrong place.

  Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

  Matter, Dirt

  7 Copy quote

• And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same.

  James Levine

  Men, Years, Lasts

  20 Copy quote

• My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

  Sara Paretsky

  Sibling, Home, Parent

  16 Copy quote

• I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened.

  Nancy Mitford

  Thinking, Hunting, Eggs

  Nancy Mitford (2010). “The Pursuit of Love”, p.109, Vintage

  47 Copy quote

  Show source

• My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.

  Maureen Forrester

  Mother, Children, Lovely Voice

  85 Copy quote

• As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  75 Copy quote

• 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 feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

  Margaret Mead

  Baby, Husband, Children

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is no such thing as a self-cleaning oven.

  Wes Smith

  Self, Cleaning, Revelations

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they're ended.

  Colley Cibber

  Party, House, Cost

  Colley Cibber (1761). “The double gallant: or, The sick lady's cure”, p.7

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean Girls, Women, Age

  62 Copy quote

• I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn.

  Lettie Cowman

  Party, Feet, House

  54 Copy quote

• The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process

  Mary McCarthy

  Work, House, Toil

  "The Vita Activa". The New Yorker, October 18, 1958.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture finished and put inside boxes.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humor, Cutting

  Dave Barry (2001). “All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source