Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can’t see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.
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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As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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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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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 grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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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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There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
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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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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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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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I haven’t trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I’ve never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
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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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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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