How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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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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When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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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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My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
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My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
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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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Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
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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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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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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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Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.
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