My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance. — Erma Bombeck
I'm a great housekeeper. I get divorced. I keep the house. — Zsa Zsa Gabor
I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house. — Zsa Zsa Gabor
Housekeepers, homemakers, wives, and mothers are fundamental social relations, which rest upon woman's characteristics, physical, mental, and moral. — R. Heber Newton
I always clean before the cleaning lady comes. If not, when I come home, I can't find anything. Cleaning ladies are always hiding things you leave out. — Celia Cruz
Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance? — Phyllis Diller
The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing. — Barbara Bush
I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again. — Joan Rivers
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. — Phyllis Diller
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
In the messy world of a college dorm, I made it a point to keep my room neat and tidy. — James Clear
Cleaning is my favorite way to relax. I clear things out and get rid of the stuff I don't need. When the food pantry and the refrigerator are organized, I feel less stressed. — Jennifer Morrison
Cleanliness is the Hallmark of perfect standards and the best quality inspector is the conscience — J. R. D. Tata
Short Housekeeping Quotes
I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on. — Roseanne Barr
universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality. — Arthur Schopenhauer
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. — Henry David Thoreau
All my wives were great housekeepers. After every divorce, they kept the house. — Willie Pep
There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands. — Eleanor Roosevelt
It is a woman's business to be interested in the environment. It's an extended form of housekeeping. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas
The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I've ever seen that I didn't have to clean. — Erma Bombeck
Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. — Henry David Thoreau
Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder. — Thornton Wilder
Housekeeping Image Quotes
Good Housekeeping Quotes
This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval. — Norm Dicks
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping — Peggy Noonan
I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21, working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine. — Judith Krantz
The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas
I felt I'd earned the Good Housekeeping Seal when I designed an oval-shaped spaghetti pot, because spaghetti is long. — Sayings
To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living. — Samuel Beckett
First of all, I never make a movie for awards consideration. — Harvey Weinstein
But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation. — Lord Byron
If a woman is not fit to manage the internal matters of a house, she is fit for nothing, and should never be put in a house or over a house, any way. Good housekeeping lies at he root of all the real ease and satisfaction in existence. — Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
Housework Quotes
The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother. — Dorothy Fields
My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar. — Maureen Forrester
Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn. — Hesiod
I clean up, putting all the tools and instruments back where they belong, remembering that a tool in the wrong place is no better than a tool we don’t have. — Scott Kelly
Whether we notice it or not, we spend our days negotiating for something: for our spouse to do more housework, a child to eat just three more bites or go to bed on time, an extended deadline on a project, a salary increase, a better rate on a vacation package. — Chris Voss
But teaching is like climbing a mountain. — Fawn M. Brodie
I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn. — Lettie Cowman
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain. — Fawn M. Brodie
I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate. — Julie Kenner
[On women's role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men;
As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs,
Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves, are 'clept
All by the name of dogs: the valued file
Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle,
The housekeeper, the hunter, every one
According to the gift which bounteous nature
Hath in him closed. — William Shakespeare
When I visit a new bookstore, I demand cleanliness, computer monitors, and rigorous alphabetization. When I visit a secondhand bookstore, I prefer indifferent housekeeping, sleeping cats, and sufficient organizational chaos. — Anne Fadiman
Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping. — Augusten Burroughs
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. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. — Henry David Thoreau
The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not. — Ellen G. White
Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville. — Edgar Bergen
If you're a leader, your whole reason for living is to help human beings develop - to really develop people and make work a place that's energetic and exciting and a growth opportunity, whether you're running a Housekeeping Department or Google. I mean, this is not rocket science. — Tom Peters
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
Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable, and finally has come to look and not to buy. — Marilynne Robinson
Today when a man gets married he gets a home, a housekeeper, a cook, a cheering squad and another paycheck. When a woman marries, she gets a boarder. To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion. — Duke of Wellington
Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty. — Robert Crippen
It almost seemed as if there must be some random and of course unfair thrift in the emotional housekeeping of the world, if the great happiness--however temporary, however flimsy--of one person could come out of the great unhappiness of another. — Alice Munro
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. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. What are threescore years and ten hurriedly and coarsely lived to moments of divine leisure in which your life is coincident with the life of the universe? — Henry David Thoreau
Some people come in and really freak. There's movement everywhere, even a dancing housekeeper! — Tom Bergeron
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids. — Bill Condon
The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful. Before we can adorn our houses with beautiful objects the walls must bestripped, and our lives must be stripped, and beautiful housekeeping and beautiful living laid for a foundation. — Henry David Thoreau
The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting. — Pablo Picasso
Nature has decreed that for what men suffer by having to shave, be killed in battle, and eat the legs of chickens, women make amends by housekeeping, childbirth, and writing all the letters for both of them. — Jan Struther
I don't have a nanny or a housekeeper, and I only have a cleaner for one hour each week. I finish work and go home. I cook the dinner. I run into Tesco and do the housework in the evening. — Victoria Beckham
Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers. — Mignon McLaughlin
We've got minds and souls as well as hearts; ambition and talents as well as beauty and accomplishments; and we want to live and learn as well as love and be loved. I'm sick of being told that is all a woman is fit for! I won't have anything to do with love until I prove that I am something beside a housekeeper and a baby-tender! — Louisa May Alcott
Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough. To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity. — Karl Marx
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