Housework Quotes

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes-and six months later you have to start all over again. (Joan Rivers)
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? View quote
Erma Bombeck
Housework can kill you if done right. View quote
Erma Bombeck
There was no need to do any housework at all. After four years the dirt doesn't get any worse. View quote
Quentin Crisp
Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance? View quote
Phyllis Diller
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. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain. View quote
Fawn M. Brodie
While I think men and women are equal, they are also different and I think it's inevitable and I don't think it's a bad thing at all that we always have, say, more women doing things like physiotherapy and an enormous number of women simply doing housework. View quote
Tony Abbott
No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting. View quote
Emily Oster
You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin. View quote
Kate Millett
I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened. (Nancy Mitford)
My girlfriend is much better than I am at working hard then resting, and she demands that from me, too. She insists on having time when we don't do anything. We leave the housework and watch a movie. View quote
Cynthia Nixon
Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization. View quote
Ann Oakley
My parents were very well-off, but we didn't have a crazy-huge house. We didn't have thousands of workers and staff; it was just my mum doing the majority of the housework. We didn't have nannies. I wasn't brought up in any sort of extravagant way. View quote
Petra Stunt
My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework. View quote
Sara Paretsky
Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured. View quote
Julia Child
When men do all the outside work, they contribute on average about 10 percent of housework. But as their share of outside work falls, their share of housework rises to no more than 37 percent. View quote
George Akerlof
Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
Not many people know this, but on top of writing regularly for every known newspaper and magazine, Anthony Burgess writes regularly for every unknown one, too. Pick up a Hungarian quarterly or a Portuguese tabloid - and there is Burgess, discoursing on goulash or test-driving the new Fiat 500. 'Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.' Even today, at seventy, and still producing book after book, Burgess spends half his time writing music. He additionally claims to do all the housework. View quote
Martin Amis
Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage. View quote
Erma Bombeck
Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity. (Erma Bombeck)
Housework, if you do it right, will kill you. View quote
Erma Bombeck
Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people. View quote
Terry Pratchett
I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking. View quote
Siobhan Fahey
Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it. View quote
Evan Esar