A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
ERMA BOMBECKHave you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen Three. It takes one to say What light and two more to say I didn’t turn it on.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie.
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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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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When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.
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One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.
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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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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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When you’re lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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