Housework Quotations
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| God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
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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 | |||
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| My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. | |||
| - Erma Bombeck | |||
| The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I've ever seen that I didn't have to clean. | |||
| - Erma Bombeck | |||
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| I am thankful for a lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning and gutters that need fixing because it means I have a home.... I am thankful for the piles of laundry and ironing because it means my loved ones are nearby. | |||
| - Nancie J. Carmody | |||
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| The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. | |||
| - Agatha Christie | |||
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| There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse. | |||
| - Quentin Crisp | |||
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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 | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store. | |||
| - Kin Hubbard | |||
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| You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping. | |||
| - Rudyard Kipling | |||
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| I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor. | |||
| - D.H. Lawrence | |||
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| My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors. | |||
| - Bette Midler | |||
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| There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house. | |||
| - Joe Ryan | |||
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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 | |||