One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
ERMA BOMBECKWomen are never what they seem to be. There is the woman you see and there is the woman who is hidden. Buy the gift for the woman who is hidden.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed.
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He who laughs lasts.
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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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If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I’d have cherished ever moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.
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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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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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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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It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE. Loosely translated, this means, You’re on your own, Bernice.
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