Friends are “annuals” that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a “perennial” that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There’s a place in the garden for both of them.
ERMA BOMBECKFriends are “annuals” that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a “perennial” that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There’s a place in the garden for both of them.
ERMA BOMBECKMy 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?
ERMA BOMBECKOne thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.
ERMA BOMBECKI’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
ERMA BOMBECKDid you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
ERMA BOMBECKHumor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It’s unbridled, its unplanned, it’s full of suprises.
ERMA BOMBECKGrandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
ERMA BOMBECKA grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
ERMA BOMBECKHow come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
ERMA BOMBECKIt takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
ERMA BOMBECKI was trampled to death by a man who believed his luggage would be the first piece off. If he were an experienced traveler, he would know that the first piece of luggage belongs to no one. It’s just a dummy suitcase to give everyone hope.
ERMA BOMBECKCleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn’t even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.
ERMA BOMBECKHousework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
ERMA BOMBECKDon’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
ERMA BOMBECKThe 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.
ERMA BOMBECKMy idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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