When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
ERMA BOMBECK
When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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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 you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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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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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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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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One 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.
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A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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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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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 humor goes, there goes civilization.
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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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