Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
ERMA BOMBECKMy idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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It is my theory you can’t get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.
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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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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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Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.
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All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
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Housework can kill you if done right.
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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Success is outliving your failures.
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A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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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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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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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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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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