Subject: Activities » Housework (Page 2)

I am a marvelous housekeeper; every time I leave a man I keep his house.

(1917 – 2016) Hungarian-born American actress

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

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

You know it’s time to do the laundry when you dry off with a sneaker.

(1969 – ) comedian & actor

You make the beds, you wash the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director

It (housework) expands to fill the time available plus half an hour: so obviously it is never finished.

I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

You don’t get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

(1949 – ) American actress

There's no real need to do housework – after four years it doesn't get any worse.

(1908 – 1999) English writer

Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: eat out.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

It's better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.

(1904 – 1989) Spanish surrealist painter

Whatever arrangement you make for the division of household duties, your husband's job will be easier.

Men – because of a tragic flaw – cannot see dirt until there is enough of it to support agriculture.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

Nature abhors a vacuum… and so do I.

American cartoonist & greeting card illustrator

There’s such a buildup of crud in my oven, there’s only room to bake a single cupcake.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

There is always more dirty laundry than clean laundry.

Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.

writer

Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does.

(1902 – 1963) Danish actor

My mother was so house proud that when my father got up to sleepwalk she had the bed made by the time he got back.

(1919 – 1985) Scottish comedian & actor

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I’ll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

(1920 – 1994) German-born author & poet

People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called “Suffering From a Mental Illness.”

(1975 – ) blogger

I do clean up a little if company is coming; I'll wipe the lipstick off the milk container.

(1952 – ) comedian