Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
ERMA BOMBECKCleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn’t even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie.
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Cats invented self-esteem.
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I was trampled to death by a man who believed his luggage would be the first piece off. If he were an experienced traveler, he would know that the first piece of luggage belongs to no one. It’s just a dummy suitcase to give everyone hope.
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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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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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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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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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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
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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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Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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Every puppy should have a boy.
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