If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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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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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One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
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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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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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There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
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A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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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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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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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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Housework can kill you if done right.
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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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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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Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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