1. Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.-Marcelene Cox
2. Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.-Phyllis Diller
3. A clean house will result in peace in the Middle East as well.-Melina Marchetta
4. The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment.-Marie Kondo
5. When all else fails, cleaning house is the perfect antidote to most of life’s ills.-Sue Grafton
6. The poet is at the disposal of the night. His role is humble, he must clean house and await its due visitation.-Jean Cocteau
7. They cooked and washed dishes and scrubbed and mopped and dusted and wiped and cleaned the apartment from crack to crevice back to crack.-Matthew Aaron Goodman
8. My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.-Erma Bombeck
9. We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself – your own house – which we never do.-Marina Abramovic
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10. There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.-Quentin Crisp
11. Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean.-Laurence J. Peter
12. Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn’t done it.-Evan Esar
13. 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
14. More important than a clean house is a close family.-Ann Voskamp