I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
ERMA BOMBECKGrandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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Cats invented self-esteem.
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Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.
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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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He who laughs lasts.
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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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I remember thinking how often we look, but never see … we listen, but never hear … we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive.
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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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When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.
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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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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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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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