When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
ERMA BOMBECKIt is my theory you can’t get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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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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It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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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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He who laughs lasts.
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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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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.
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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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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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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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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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