Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
ERMA BOMBECKEvery puppy should have a boy.
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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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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As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’.
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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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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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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Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
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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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When you’re lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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