Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
ERMA BOMBECKThe hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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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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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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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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I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night.
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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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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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Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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