Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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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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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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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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Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
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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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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.
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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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Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
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Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen Three. It takes one to say What light and two more to say I didn’t turn it on.
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A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
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