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.
ERMA BOMBECKNo one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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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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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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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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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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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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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Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
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My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
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Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.
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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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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 not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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I remember thinking how often we look, but never see … we listen, but never hear … we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive.
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