Famous Housework Quotes

A man's home is his castle, and his wife is the janitor.
-- Lucille Kallen

At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
-- Rose Macaulay

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

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

Housekeeping ain't no joke.
-- Louis May Alcott

Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.
-- Marcelene Cox

I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.
-- Phyllis Diller

I will clean house when Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.
-- Roseanne Barr

I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.
-- Shirley Conran

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

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

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

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

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

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

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