If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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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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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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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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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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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He who laughs lasts.
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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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One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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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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It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE. Loosely translated, this means, You’re on your own, Bernice.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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