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The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters--from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number--a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

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

The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do it is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty-four hours.

Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?

Housekeeping ain't no joke.

A man's home is his castle, and his wife is the janitor.

Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.

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

At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.

If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, "Who could have done this? we have no enemies.".

People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as eternal as the dishes.

I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. There's no use doing it now, it doesn't fit anybody I know.

The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason why they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.

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.

I will clean house when Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.