Subject: Activities » Housework (Page 2)

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

(1922 – 2007) American novelist

Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.

(1927 – 1996) columnist & humorist

I’ve decided to become gay… not in a sexual way, but I am going to start picking up around the house.

American comedian & actor

My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them; my mother cleans them.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

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

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

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

(1952 – ) comedian

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

(1947 – ) author, humorist & satirist

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

(1927 – 1996) columnist & humorist

Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.

writer

Don't cook… don’t clean; no man will ever make love to a woman because she waxed the linoleum

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

I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is… and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened.

(1904 – 1973) English novelist & biographer

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

I’ve decided to sell my Hoover… well, it was just collecting dust.

(1967 – ) English actor, writer & comedian

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

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing?

(1928 – ) British journalist, writer & columnist

How do you know if it's time to wash the dishes and clean your house?… look inside your pants and if you find a penis in there, it's not time.

(1957 – ) British stand-up comedian

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

Excuse the mess but we live here.

(1952 – ) comedian, actress & writer

I’m eighteen years behind on my ironing.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

If you start to clean your desk in the spare bedroom you will probably have to clean the garage to find what you need to finish cleaning the desk.