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.
ERMA BOMBECKMy 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?
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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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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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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Success is outliving your failures.
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Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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Children make your life important.
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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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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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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I remember thinking how often we look, but never see … we listen, but never hear … we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive.
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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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