Chores Quotes

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

  Kin Hubbard

  Home, Coming Out, Stores

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• For me, the big chore is always the same: how to begin a sentence, how to continue it, how to complete it.

  Claude Simon

  Bigs, Sentences

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• A secret, like a chore, always seems to lead to another, one even more troublesome than the first.

  Bette Lord

  Secret, Firsts, Troublesome

  Bette Lord (1984). “In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• We make them [kids] earn the stuff they want. They're not going to play with their iPad today unless they do their chores.

  Julie Bowen

  Kids, Play, Ipads

  "Julie Bowen: Fellow Mom Reese Witherspoon 'Saved My Life'". Interview with Alissa Schulman, www.usmagazine.com. August 9, 2016.

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

  Bette Midler

  Ideas, Cleaning, Superwoman

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• My musical director, Mark Cherry, is the most wonderful person who ever lived on God's good green Earth. He's my director, he does the arrangements. Really, he does everything - including certain janitorial chores!

  Brett Somers

  Musical, Doe, Wonderful Person

  "Somers in the City". Interview with Michael Portantiere, www.theatermania.com. July 3, 2003.

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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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• Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.

  Erma Bombeck

  Memorable, Futility Of Life, Terrorism

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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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• If a cow walked into this room, I'd probably walk out. I could milk it, but my dad never forced me to do a lot of chores like that, mostly because he loved doing it himself.

  Stuart Appleby

  Dad, Cows, Rooms

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

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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 do have a chore schedule - in my mind. I dont tell anyone I have it, but its in my mind.

  David Alan Basche

  Mind, Schedules

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• I was serious about retiring the first time, but the first week I was home my wife had SO many chores to do I went back.

  Brett Favre

  Home, Wife, Firsts

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• Except for the usual house chores, doing income tax, etc., I am free to write whenever I want.

  Yuriy Tarnawsky

  Writing, House, Usual

  "No Tall Tales". Interview with David Moscovich, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.

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• It's a chore for a fellow to fear for his life more than once in an evening.

  T. R. Pearson

  Evening, Fellows

  T. R. Pearson (2001). “Blue Ridge”, Penguin Group USA

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• There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running.

  Robert Breault

  Running, Two, Important

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• A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, House, Tasks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.83, Harvard University Press

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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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• One thing I think kids need to do is more chores, and take care of their own rooms. Responsibilities are really important to start them with. If they have animals, they have to feed them and care for them. That's the only way I think I could do it.

  Faith Ford

  Kids, Responsibility, Animal

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

  Roseanne Barr

  Mom, Mother, Clever

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

  Paula Gosling

  Couple, Appreciated, Housework

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

  Shirley Conran

  Lying, Sofas, Housework

  Shirley Conran (1978). “Superwoman”, Outlet

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