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!'
A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing and mojito in your hand.
You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping.
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.
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.
I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred orange and scrub the floor.
But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
Housework is like cleaning fish. No matter how often you do it, it still stinks.
Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.
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.
A man's home is his castle, and his wife is the janitor
My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
I like the dry-cleaners. I like the sense of refreshment and renewal. I like the way dirty old torn clothes are dumped, to be returned clean and wholesome in their slippery transparent cases. Better than confesssion any day. Here there is a true sense of rebirth, redemption, salvation.
I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate.
Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.
Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.
You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.
At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
They shared the chores of living as some couples do-she did most of the work and he appreciated it.
People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as eternal as the dishes.
I don't hate men, I just wish they'd try harder. Theyall want to be heroes and all we want is for them to stay at home and help with the housework and the kids. That's not the kind of heroism they enjoy.
Always keep your home presentable, assuming you keep a home for purposes of presentation.
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