A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
ERMA BOMBECKKids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
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Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
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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?
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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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Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
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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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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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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’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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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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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 my theory you can’t get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.
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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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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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