If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
ERMA BOMBECKThe grass is always greener over the septic tank.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Cats invented self-esteem.
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Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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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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A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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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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He who laughs lasts.
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Housework can kill you if done right.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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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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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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Every puppy should have a boy.
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Children make your life important.
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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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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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