Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
ERMA BOMBECKMy idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Children make your life important.
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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Cats invented self-esteem.
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Housework can kill you if done right.
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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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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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Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed.
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.
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People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.
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