Housework Quotes

• Housework can kill you if done right.

  Erma Bombeck

  Work, Drinking, Done

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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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• 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 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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  Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Hilarious, Witty

  Phyllis Diller (2006). “Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy”, p.77, Penguin

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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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• There is a woman who swam around Manhattan, and I asked her, why? She said, it hadn't ever been done before. Well, she didn't have to do that. If she wanted to something no one had ever done before, all she had to do was vacuum my apartment.

  Rita Rudner

  Vacuums, Manhattan, Done

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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 buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.

  Phyllis Diller

  Yards, Buried

  "Phyllis Diller, zany humorist and comedy trailblazer, dies aged 95". www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2012.

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• Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it.

  Edna Ferber

  Men, World, Why Me

  Edna Ferber (1962). “Show Boat ; So Big ; Cimarron: Three Living Novels of American Life”

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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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• 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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• 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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• The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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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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• You won't do any more housework Then you go to the bin.

  Kate Millett

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• Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

  Erica Jong

  Artist, Earth, Housewife

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• I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Mother, Cooking, Doe

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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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• 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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• Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

  Erma Bombeck

  Lazy, Literature, Ifs

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• We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house.

  Robert Breault

  Home, House, Guests

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• If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Wall, Writing, Space

  Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.88, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Men, Activity, Competent

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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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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