Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.
ERMA BOMBECKI am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie.
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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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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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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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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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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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For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
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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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There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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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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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?
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