Housework Quotes

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

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch on fire or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one cares. Why should you?

Housework is what woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn’t done it.

Helping his wife wash the dishes, a minister protested, “This isn’t a man’s job.” “Oh yes it is,” his wife retorted, quoting 2 Kings 21:13: “I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.”

All work and no pay makes a housewife.

To a woman the house is life militant; to a man it is life in repose.

Woman’s work! Housework’s the hardest work in the world. That’s why men won’t do it.

Conran’s rule of housework: it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour.

I’m a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house.