Ah, the resentful trapped 50's housewife teaching her daughter to overturn the ways of the world, "Honey, in your generation: become the man!" So, today, 2 generations later we have men complaining about what jerks the women are...
Quotes
* God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done. - Anonymous
* This house is protected by killer dust bunnies. - Anonymous
* A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. - James Dent
* 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
* Dust is just a country accent. - Anonymous
* One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop. - G.M. Weilacher
* If the shelves are dusty and the pots don't shine, it's because I have better things to do with my time. - Anonymous
* When you use a manual push mower, you're "cutting" down on pollution and the only thing in danger of running out of gas is you! - Grey Livingston
* Please don't feed the dust bunnies. - Anonymous
* Three-fourths of the Earth's surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn. - Chuck Clark
* My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors. - Bette Midler
* This mess is a place! - Anonymous
* When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why. - Katharine Whitehorn, "Nought for Homework," Roundabout, 1962
* They're sure housework won't kill you, but why take the risk? - Anonymous
* Cleanliness is next to impossible. - Anonymous
* A clean house is the sign of a boring person. - Anonymous (at least that's what we keep telling ourselves who like to procrastinate...)
* You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty. - Cecil Baxter
* 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? - Erma Bombeck
* The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store. - Kin Hubbard
* There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house. - Joe Ryan
* I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn. - C.E. Cowman
* The obvious and fair solution to the housework problem is to let men do the housework for, say, the next six thousand years, to even things up. The trouble is that men, over the years, have developed an inflated notion of the importance of everything they do, so that before long they would turn housework into just as much of a charade as business is now. They would hire secretaries and buy computers and fly off to housework conferences in Bermuda, but they'd never clean anything. - Dave Barry
* Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner. - Anonymous
* The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. - Agatha Christie, writer
* This is a honeydew day. That is when you get a day off and the wife says, "Honey, do this," and "Honey, do that" around the house. - Jim Lemon
* My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance. - Anonymous
Housework, if it is done right, can kill you. - John Skow
* There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse. - Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant, 1968
* The trouble with living alone is that it's always your turn to do the dishes. - Anonymous
* I'm not going to vacuum until Sears makes one you can ride on. - Roseanne Barr, comedian
* I think housework is the reason most women go to the office. - Heloise Cruse
* The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I've ever seen that I didn't have to clean. - Erma Bombeck
* Don't cook. Don't clean. No man will ever make love to a woman because she waxed the linoleum - "My God, the floor's immaculate. Lie down, you hot bitch." - Joan Rivers, comedian
* Housework is something you do that nobody notices until you don't do it. - Anonymous
* Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. - Phyllis Diller, comedian, Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints, 1966
* Nature abhors a vacuum. And so do I. - Anne Gibbons
* My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. - Erma Bombeck, comedian
* 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
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