Chores Quotes - Page 2

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  I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.

  Joan Rivers

  Funny, Hilarious, Hate

  Quoted in Michele Brown and Ann O'Connor, Woman Talk (1984)

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• Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood.

  Erma Bombeck

  Toasters, Next, Cleanliness

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• I do chores around the house, but I don't get an allowance for them. I wash the dishes and sweep the floor... I'm sweeping the floor quite a lot, and my mum always expects me to get a broom and swagger it across the floor all the time.

  Callan McAuliffe

  House, Swagger, Allowance

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• The obvious and fair solution to the housework problem is to let men do the housework for, say, the next six thousand years, to even things up. The trouble is that men, over the years, have developed an inflated notion of the importance of everything they do, so that before long they would turn housework into just as much of a charade as business is now. They would hire secretaries and buy computers and fly off to housework conferences in Bermuda, but they'd never clean anything.

  Dave Barry

  Men, Years, Long

  Dave Barry (2012). “The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry”, p.30, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• 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.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Cheer, Thinking, Orange

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.55, Cambridge University Press

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

  Phyllis Diller

  Years, Use, Cleaning

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• There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

  Quentin Crisp

  Funny, Kids, Years

  Naked Civil Servant (1968) ch. 15

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• Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.

  Erma Bombeck

  Religious, Toasters, Next

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• 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?

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Block, Fire

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

  Erma Bombeck

  Football, Funny Inspirational, College

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• Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

  Ann Oakley

  Inspirational, Self, Cleaning

  Ann Oakley (1974). “Woman's work: the housewife, past and present”, Vintage

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• At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

  Rose Macaulay

  Life, Stress, House

  Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”

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• 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

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• 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

  Doors, House, Enemy

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

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Women, Taken, Clothes

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• When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Book, Mean, Management

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• My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

  Erma Bombeck

  Ideas, Rooms, Cleaning

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• Every time a child organizes and completes a chore, spends some time alone without feeling lonely, loses herself in play for an hour, or refuses to go along with her peers in some activity she feels is wrong, she will be building meaning and a sense of worth for herself and harmony in her family.

  Barbara Coloroso

  Lonely, Children, Play

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• Do you know what separates adults from children? Self-discipline. We don’t want to go to work, we don’t want to do our chores, and we don’t want to make unpleasant decisions, but we do all those things because we’re aware of the consequences which will follow if we don’t.

  Ilona Andrews

  Children, Self, Discipline

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• Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores - it's called partnership.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Husband, Women, Today

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• I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing - something I couldn't wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn't really enjoy.

  Eric Clapton

  Guitar, Waiting, Singing

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• I have fun writing. I don't make it a chore. I don't have to struggle with it.

  Elmore Leonard

  Fun, Struggle, Writing

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• Noise and crowds have a way of siphoning our energy and distracting our attention, making prayer an added chore rather than a comforting relief

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Prayer, Comforting, Energy

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• The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Effort, May

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World, Part II: The End of the Story”, p.115, Bantam

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• Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore.

  Harlan Ellison

  Writing, Coward, Commodity

  Harlan Ellison (1972). “Dangerous Visions”, Berkley

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