I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
ERMA BOMBECKSeize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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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Housework can kill you if done right.
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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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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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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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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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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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He who laughs lasts.
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
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Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.
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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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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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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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