Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
ERMA BOMBECKMy idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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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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Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation’s compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.
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The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?
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My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
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There’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.
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When you’re lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I’d have cherished ever moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE. Loosely translated, this means, You’re on your own, Bernice.
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Cats invented self-esteem.
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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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