Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
ERMA BOMBECKGood kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Success is outliving your failures.
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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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There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
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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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For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
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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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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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A member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. “What shall we name the other one?” I smiled. She was not amused.
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
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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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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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