A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.
ERMA BOMBECKOnion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.
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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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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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For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.
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Housework can kill you if done right.
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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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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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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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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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