Housework Quotes

Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves.

I can’t figure her out. She’s got a house to clean, meals to cook, you two kids to look after, dishes to wash, laundry, floors to scrub and she’s bored! What more does she want? (Chester)

They shared the chores of living as some couples do – she did most of the work and he appreciated it.

The man who never in his life – Has washed the dishes with his wife – Or polished up the silver plate – He still is largely celibate.

Take out the papers and the trash Or you don’t get no spendin’ cash If you don’t scrub that kitchen floor You ain’t gonna rock and roll no more Yakety yak (don’t talk back) Just finish cleanin’ up your room And sweep the dust out with that broom Get all that garbage out of sight […]

The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband’s house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.

The fantasy of every Australian man is to have two women: one cleaning and one dusting.

I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don’t have any clean laundry because, come on, who wants to wash clothes on the last day of their life?

Housework expands to fill the time available. Time not spent doing one task will be taken up by another – Washing used to be done on a single day of the week – Laundry is now done several times a day – Television commercials show beaming women snatching a single soiled garment from the back […]

Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay’s a lot worse.