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?
ERMA BOMBECKIt 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.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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It is my theory you can’t get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.
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Women 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.
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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
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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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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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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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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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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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Cats invented self-esteem.
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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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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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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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