If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
ERMA BOMBECKWhen you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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When you’re lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
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Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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I read one psychologist’s theory that said, “Never strike a child in your anger.” When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he’s recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday?
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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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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.
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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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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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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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Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.
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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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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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