Housework can kill you if done right.
ERMA BOMBECKA member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. “What shall we name the other one?” I smiled. She was not amused.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie.
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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 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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Children make your life important.
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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Friends are “annuals” that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a “perennial” that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There’s a place in the garden for both of them.
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It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
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People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.
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A member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. “What shall we name the other one?” I smiled. She was not amused.
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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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Cats invented self-esteem.
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A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
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A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.
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