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?
ERMA BOMBECKA grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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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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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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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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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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Some emotions don’t make a lot of noise. It’s hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint – like a heartbeat. And pure love – why, some days it’s so quiet, you don’t even know it’s there.
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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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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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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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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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Housework can kill you if done right.
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