If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
ERMA BOMBECKNever go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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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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There’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.
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A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.
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Success is outliving your failures.
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He who laughs lasts.
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I was trampled to death by a man who believed his luggage would be the first piece off. If he were an experienced traveler, he would know that the first piece of luggage belongs to no one. It’s just a dummy suitcase to give everyone hope.
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When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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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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All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
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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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