Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.
ERMA BOMBECKHow come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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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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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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I remember thinking how often we look, but never see … we listen, but never hear … we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive.
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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 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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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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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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Housework can kill you if done right.
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Every puppy should have a boy.
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Cleanliness 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.
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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