Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
ERMA BOMBECKI worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
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My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
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Women are never what they seem to be. There is the woman you see and there is the woman who is hidden. Buy the gift for the woman who is hidden.
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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Every puppy should have a boy.
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Children make your life important.
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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’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
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