The 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 BOMBECKChildren make your life important.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can’t see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.
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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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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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He who laughs lasts.
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Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.
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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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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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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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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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Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen Three. It takes one to say What light and two more to say I didn’t turn it on.
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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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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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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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