Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
ERMA BOMBECKVolunteers 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.
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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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
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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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My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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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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Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.
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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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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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One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
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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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Housework can kill you if done right.
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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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