A member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. “What shall we name the other one?” I smiled. She was not amused.
ERMA BOMBECKIt is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE. Loosely translated, this means, You’re on your own, Bernice.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can’t see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It’s unbridled, its unplanned, it’s full of suprises.
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One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.
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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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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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Cats invented self-esteem.
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The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?
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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?
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Children make your life important.
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