It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE. Loosely translated, this means, You’re on your own, Bernice.
ERMA BOMBECKFor years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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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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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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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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It is my theory you can’t get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.
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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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Success is outliving your failures.
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Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.
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