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Housework

The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished and put inside boxes. – Dave Barry

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

A new broom sweeps clean, but the old broom knows the corners. – Irish Saying

This house is protected by killer dust bunnies. – Author Unknown

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

There may be dust in my house but there isn’t any on me. – Author Unknown

Housekeeping aint no joke. – Louisa May Alcott

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

My theory on housework is, if the item doesnt multiply, smell, catch on fire or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one cares. Why should you? – Erma Bombeck

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if youre going to be lazy. – Shirley Conran

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household. – Erica Jong

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

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt. – Edith Mendel Stern

Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt. – Oscar Wilde