He who laughs lasts.
ERMA BOMBECKThere’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I’d have cherished ever moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.
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Children make your life important.
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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
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Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.
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A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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Success is outliving your failures.
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Friends are “annuals” that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a “perennial” that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There’s a place in the garden for both of them.
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Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn’t even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.
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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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