Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
ERMA BOMBECKWhen 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’.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.
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Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation’s compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.
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Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed.
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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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For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
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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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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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Success is outliving your failures.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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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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It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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