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.
ERMA BOMBECKTime. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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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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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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Every puppy should have a boy.
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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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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed.
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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 humor goes, there goes civilization.
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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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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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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I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.
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