If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
ERMA BOMBECKWhen humor goes, there goes civilization.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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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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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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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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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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I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.
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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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Success is outliving your failures.
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A member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. “What shall we name the other one?” I smiled. She was not amused.
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Children make your life important.
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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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There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
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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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