Housework Quotes (73 Quotes)

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

On a day of burial there is no perspective -- for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was -- to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.

This comes after many of us have invested so much time and effort it makes it a chore to do anything except bend over, grab our ankles and smile.

That was some real one-on-one time you got with your mother. Other than that, you're doing chores, she's cooking, cleaning and probably hanging up clothes.

A new survey has suggested that a man's work is never done, with men spending an average of two hours a day on household chores. According to research by academics at Essex University men spend some 146 minutes each day on housework. The research shows that modern men are much more likely to role their sleeves up than men in the 1960s, who spent just 83 minutes each day on household tasks. The average man spends around half an hour a day cooking and washing up and almost 40 minutes buying groceries, the study suggests. Other tasks completed by men about the house include taking children to school and doing DIY jobs. Employing someone to perform chores increasingly carried out by men wouldn't come cheap according to Sainsbury's Bank, which estimates that the market value of the average man's household labour is worth almost 12,000 a year. Much has been written about the rise of supermums and how they juggle careers with raising a family, ... However, there are also many superdads who as well as holding down jobs, also do a lot of work around the home - from DIY to cooking.

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

He is just one of those kids that is just a joy to work with. He's willing to do anything you ask him to do and work as hard as you want him to work. It's never a chore with him.

I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.

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?

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind.

He was very much at home in the TV studio or on stage live anywhere that is where he really lived. And, you know what, it was never a chore for him. It was never nerve-racking. He was always so completely prepared by his tremendous organization that he had put together,

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.

What we've seen happen over the last 30 years is that women still do, about on average, an hour more per day of housework than men do.

More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself.

It's more of a chore to keep them interested in reading when they enter middle school and high school.

I used to hate, with a capitol H, making videos. It was nothing but a chore. It was something you had to do to have your music accepted in the visual medium.

My musical director, Mark Cherry, is the most wonderful person who ever lived on God's good green Earth. He's my director, he does the arrangements. Really, he does everything - including certain janitorial chores!

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.

Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days.

To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a 'home' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.

People don't like having to do tasks by themselves -- especially housework. Rather than doing chores separately, it can be a much more positive experience when families do them at the same time.

My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works.