A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
ERMA BOMBECKI never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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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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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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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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When you’re lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
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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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Cats invented self-esteem.
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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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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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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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