When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
ERMA BOMBECKHave 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.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
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A member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. “What shall we name the other one?” I smiled. She was not amused.
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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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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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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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If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I’d have cherished ever moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.
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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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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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Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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Some emotions don’t make a lot of noise. It’s hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint – like a heartbeat. And pure love – why, some days it’s so quiet, you don’t even know it’s there.
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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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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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