Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.
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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My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.
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When you’re lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
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Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation’s compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.
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A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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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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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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Cats invented self-esteem.
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He who laughs lasts.
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Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can’t see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.
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Women are never what they seem to be. There is the woman you see and there is the woman who is hidden. Buy the gift for the woman who is hidden.
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I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie.
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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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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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