Profoundly inspirational cleaning quotes will challenge the way you think, and help guide you through any life experience.
Famous Cleaning Quotes
You don’t get anything clean without getting something else dirty. Cecil Baxter
Clean up your own mess. Robert Fulghum
Sweeping only moves the dust somewhere else. Marty Rubin
I’ve tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example. Elvis Presley
At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived. Rose Macaulay
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. Phyllis Diller
Nothing inspires cleanliness more than an unexpected guest. Radhika Mundra
No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic. Ann Landers
My idea of a superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors. Bette Midler
The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It’s a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for. Steve Squyres
The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes. Agatha Christie
Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew. Charles Dickens
A bright person can always think of something better to do than housework. Ruby Lou Barnhill
I am never five minutes into stripping the clutter from my life before I start running into the clutter that is my life. Robert Breault
There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running. Robert Brault
Excuse the mess but we live here. Roseanne Barr
I am never five minutes into stripping the clutter from my life before I start running into the clutter that is my life. Robert Brault
Let’s clean up our environment. Let’s clean up our bodies, but most importantly, let’s not permit our babies of the future to be polluted before they are even born. Louise Slaughter
My love of cleaning is symbolic of my desire to rule the world. Kristan Higgins
I’m always happy when I’m cleaning, and besides, I had just found out that I was going to have a baby. Peggy Lee
Housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance? Phyllis Diller
You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try. Ellen Swallow Richards
We should get a Roomba for our Roomba. I feel bad for it because it works tirelessly, and at night I can hear it cleaning, and I just feel bad for it. Ryan Gosling
Housekeeping ain’t no joke. Louisa May Alcott
The day I worry about cleaning my house is the day Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner. Roseanne Barr
The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output. Buffy Sainte Marie
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. Phyllis Diller
The cleaning is something I use as a reward if I get some work done. I go into a very happy state of mind when I’m vacuuming. Joyce Carol Oates
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
I love cleaning, weird but true. It really relaxes me. Jessie J
I always clean before the cleaning lady comes. If not, when I come home, I can’t find anything. Cleaning ladies are always hiding things you leave out. Celia Cruz
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors. Bette Midler
Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture. Mario Buatta
The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon’s lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known. Bob Woodward
I go into a very happy state of mind when I’m vacuuming. Joyce Carol Oates
I always clean before the cleaning lady comes. If not, when I come home, I can’t find anything. Cleaning ladies are always hiding things you leave out. Celia Cruz
It’s weird, I know, but I find cleaning cathartic. Rachel Nichols
I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you’re going. That’s family values. Al Sharpton
Cleaning is therapy for me. I’m not ashamed of holding the duster or broom. Amisha Patel
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. Kurt Vonnegut
Once I start cleaning, I don’t stop until it’s done. Russell Westbrook
The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty. Bjorn Lomborg
The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment. Marie Kondo
Fuel cell vehicles run on clean burning hydrogen and are three times more efficient than the traditional combustible engine. Albert Wynn
I enjoy the cleaning up something about the getting of things in order for winter making the garden secure; a battening down of hatches, perhaps It just feels right. David Hobson
When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done! Dennis Weaver
Cleaning isn’t all that interesting to me. I’m disorganized. Ruth Wilson
The meals were served in a large hall, in which Moctezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered with mats and kept very clean. Hernando Cortes
I hate housework. You make the beds, you wash the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again. Joan Rivers
The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented. Dixie Lee Ray
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. A. A. Milne
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame. Thomas Hobbes
Housework is like cleaning fish. No matter how often you do it, it still stinks. Thelma Harper
The circuit training program along with a healthy clean diet is the way to excellent results Lee Haney
Nature abhors a vacuum. And so do I. Anne Gibbons
Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece. Nadia Boulanger
My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. Erma Bombeck
There are other measures of self respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follow a parade down Main Street cleaning up. Donald T. Regan
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
Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets. Klaus Kinski
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
Just as there’s garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up. Pat Buchanan
There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years, the dirt doesn’t get any worse. Quentin Crisp
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
Housework, if you do it right, can kill you. Erma Bombeck
I enjoy the cleaning up something about the getting of things in order for winter making the garden secure a battening down of hatches perhaps It just feels right. David Hobson
I’ve always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job. Francois Truffaut
Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door. Marcelene Cox
My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people. David Dinkins
Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop offs at tedium and counter productivity. Erma Bombeck
Of course I was delighted the flight was over, but I still had to worry about cleaning up inside the cabin, I had to worry about the hatch, how to get in the sling, and so on. Alan Shepard
Housekeeping ain’t no joke. Louisa May Alcott
There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You’re cleaning up vomit and it’s 2 in the morning, and you’re wishing there was somebody else there to help you. Meg Tilly
Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing? Katherine Whitehorn
I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms. Ann Romney
Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn’t done it. Evan Esar
A great thing about these trees is that they are excellent for cleaning, both groundwater, and of course, air. Mike Lowry
I’m eighteen years behind in my ironing. There’s no use doing it now, it doesn’t fit anybody I know. Phyllis Diller
Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of the recovery. Because those green dollars are the hardest working dollars in the history of American politics. That same dollar that is being used to cut energy bills, is also cutting global warming gas emissions, is also cutting unemployment, is also cutting poverty, through retrofits it’s also raising the value of homes, is also by cleaning the air, cutting asthma rates. Van Jones
Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots. Hoosier Farmer
It’s meant to reaffirm the validity of that music clean, minimalist, honest, classic music. Dwight Yoakam
