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.
ERMA BOMBECKIf a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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Some emotions don’t make a lot of noise. It’s hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint – like a heartbeat. And pure love – why, some days it’s so quiet, you don’t even know it’s there.
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Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
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Housework can kill you if done right.
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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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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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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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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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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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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Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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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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A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
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A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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