Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
ERMA BOMBECKOnion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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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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Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It’s unbridled, its unplanned, it’s full of suprises.
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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 humor goes, there goes civilization.
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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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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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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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Success is outliving your failures.
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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 seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
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