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.
ERMA BOMBECKMy kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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It is my theory you can’t get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.
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The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.
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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
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Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation’s compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.
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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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Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
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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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There’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.
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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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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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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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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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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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