Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It’s unbridled, its unplanned, it’s full of suprises.
ERMA BOMBECKNever have more children than you have car windows.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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Housework can kill you if done right.
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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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I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night.
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Success is outliving your failures.
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Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.
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The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.
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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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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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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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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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Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can’t see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.
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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 grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.
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