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.
ERMA BOMBECKNo one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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Success is outliving your failures.
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Have 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.
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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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It 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.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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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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A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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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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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’.
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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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