56+ Best Clean House Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Profoundly inspirational clean house quotes will challenge the way you think, change the way you live and transform your whole life.

Famous Clean House Quotes

Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door. — Marcelene Cox

When all else fails, cleaning house is the perfect antidote to most of life’s ills. — Sue Grafton

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

Everybody wants to save the earth; no one wants to help mom do the dishes. — P. J. O’Rourke

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. — Phyllis Diller

My favorite six words in recovery are: trust God, clean house, and help others. — Matthew Perry

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. — Erma Bombeck

We dream of having a clean house — but who dreams of actually doing the cleaning? — Marcus Buckingham

A clean house will result in peace in the Middle East as well. — Melina Marchetta

More important than a clean house is a close family. — Ann Voskamp

Nature abhors a vacuum and so do I. — Anne Gibbons

Housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance? — Phyllis Diller

The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment. — Marie Kondo

We dream of having a clean house – but who dreams of actually doing the cleaning? We don’t have to dream about doing the work, because doing the work is always within our grasp; the dream, in this sense, is to attain the goal without the work. — Marcus Buckingham

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. — Phyllis Diller

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture. — Mario Buatta

I am allergic to domestic goddesses. Men would prefer a woman with a dirty mind to a clean house. — Kathy Lette

Housework is something you do that nobody notices until you don’t do it. — Author Unknown

Excuse the mess but we are trying to live here. — Rosanna Barr

The poet is at the disposal of the night. His role is humble, he must clean house and await its due visitation. — Jean Cocteau

We learn the process of emptying out, cleaning house, both within and without. — Brenda Shoshanna

Our house is clean enough to be healthy, and dirty enough to be happy. — Author Unknown

The dust bunnies killed my cleaning fairy.

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

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. — A. A. Milne

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

Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience and acting intelligently, which is to find some meaning in all that happens-these things, too, are the works of peace, and often seem like a very little way. — Dorothy Day

The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I’ve ever seen that I didn’t have to clean. — Erma Bombeck

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

Whether you are cooking, cleaning house, or planting flowers, try to concentrate on the textures, the smells, colors, tastes, sounds, all Zen moments of focused joy. — Jerry Lynch

I think housework is the reason most women go to the office. — Heloise Cruse

A clean house is the sign of a boring person. — Author Unknown

Cleanliness is next to impossible. — Author Unknown

My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors. — Bette Midler

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse. — Quentin Crisp

I’m not going to vacuum until Sears makes one you can ride on. — Roseanne Barr

You don’t get anything clean without getting something else dirty. — Cecil Baxter

Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean. — Laurence J. Peter

I love cleaning the house. I’d never have a cleaner – I wouldn’t trust them to do it. — Chloe Sevigny

The trouble with living alone is that it’s always your turn to do the dishes. — Author Unknown

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

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn’t done it. — Evan Esar

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived. — Rose Macaulay

I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night. — James Thurber

I am thankful for a lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning and gutters that need fixing because it means I have a home… I am thankful for the piles of laundry and ironing because it means my loved ones are nearby. — Nancie J. Carmody

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

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

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!’ — Phyllis Diller

More important than a clean house is a close family. — Ann Voskamp

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. — Phyllis Diller

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

I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn. — C. E. Cowman

We learn the process of emptying out, cleaning house, both within and without. — Brenda Shoshanna

In my house every Sunday, everybody was cleaning the house. There was always music, and everybody was dancing, sometimes naked around the house. Not hippie, but very free. — Penelope Cruz

I sing, I clean house, I write poetry. I cry. And I tell everyone I can, “I Believe in YOU.” —Robin Lim

The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes. — Agatha Christie