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.
ERMA BOMBECKMy idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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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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One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
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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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Some emotions don’t make a lot of noise. It’s hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint – like a heartbeat. And pure love – why, some days it’s so quiet, you don’t even know it’s there.
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Children make your life important.
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
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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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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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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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He who laughs lasts.
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Every puppy should have a boy.
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A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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