Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
ERMA BOMBECKThere’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night.
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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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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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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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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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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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One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
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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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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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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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There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
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