I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
ERMA BOMBECKSometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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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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One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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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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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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Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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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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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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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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Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen Three. It takes one to say What light and two more to say I didn’t turn it on.
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It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE. Loosely translated, this means, You’re on your own, Bernice.
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Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It’s unbridled, its unplanned, it’s full of suprises.
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Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation’s compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.
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