I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
ERMA BOMBECKMy kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.
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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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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
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For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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The 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?
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Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn’t even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.
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It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
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Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It’s unbridled, its unplanned, it’s full of suprises.
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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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