If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
ERMA BOMBECKA grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
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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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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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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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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I haven’t trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I’ve never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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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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I was trampled to death by a man who believed his luggage would be the first piece off. If he were an experienced traveler, he would know that the first piece of luggage belongs to no one. It’s just a dummy suitcase to give everyone hope.
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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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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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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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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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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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