Sayings about Housework
Were everyone to sweep in front of his own house, every street would be clean. ~ Dutch Proverbs
No matter how many house chores you complete, there are always more to be done.~ African Proverb
Marrying is easy, it’s housework that’s hard.~ Traditional Proverbs
When a woman is not singing, she is not working much either. ~ Egyptian Proverbs
A woman’s work is worth more than the talk of a thousand men. ~ Tajikistani Proverb
A woman‘s work is never done. ~ Traditional Proverb
A new broom sweeps clean, but the old broom knows the corners. ~ Irish Proverb
Quotations about Housework
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
Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.~ Marcelene Cox
They’re sure housework won’t kill you, but why take the risk? ~ Author Unknown
There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse. ~ Quentin Crisp
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
My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. ~ Erma Bombeck
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors. ~ Bette Midler
My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance. ~ Erma Bombeck
Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots. ~ Hoosier Farmer
I think housework is the reason most women go to the office. ~ Heloise Cruse
Housework is something you do that nobody notices until you don’t do it. ~ Author Unknown
God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done. ~ Author Unknown
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
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. ~ Phyllis Diller
Beauty is also to be found in a day’s work. ~ Mamie Sypert Burns
[H]ousework, if it is done right, can kill you. ~ John Skow
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
At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived. ~ Rose Macaulay
We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself – your own house – which we never do. ~ Marina Abramovic
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing. ~ Phyllis Diller
Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn’t done it.~ Evan Esar
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
Housework expands to fill the time you have for it.~ Hayley Foster
In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker. ~ Woody Allen
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
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion.~ Fawn M. Brodie
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
The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband’s house in return for the security of being a permanent employee. ~ Germaine Greer
I’m eighteen years behind in my ironing. There’s no use doing it now, it doesn’t fit anybody I know.~ Phyllis Diller
Housekeeping ain’t no joke. ~ Louisa May Alcott
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
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.~ Ann Oakley
Housework can kill you if done right. ~ Erma Bombeck
I hate housework! You make the beds; you do the dishes. And six months later you have to start all over again.~ Joan Rivers
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