Housework Quotes
- A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.~ Henry David Thoreau
- As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I’ve done my job.~ Roseanne Barr
- Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.~ Phyllis Diller
- Housekeeping ain’t no joke.~ Louisa May Alcott
- Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.~ Ann Oakley
- Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.~ Marcelene Cox
- Housework expands to fill the time you have for it.~ Hayley Foster
- Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion.~ Fawn M. Brodie
- Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn’t done it.~ Evan Esar
- Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.~ Ann Oakley
- I’m eighteen years behind in my ironing. There’s no use doing it now, it doesn’t fit anybody I know.~ Phyllis Diller
- I hate housework! You make the beds; you do the dishes. And six months later you have to start all over again.~ Joan Rivers
- Like plowing, housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if beer cans litter the living room. The family isn’t likely to have breakfast together if somebody didn’t remember to buy eggs, milk, or muffins. Housework maintains an orderly setting in which family life can flourish.~ Letty Cottin Pogrebin
- Marrying is easy, it’s housework that’s hard.~ Traditional Proverbs
- No matter how many house chores you complete, there are always more to be done.~ African Proverb
- 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 labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.~ Charlotte P. Gillman
- 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
- 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
- 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.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
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