Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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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Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
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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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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.
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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.
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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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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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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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It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE. Loosely translated, this means, You’re on your own, Bernice.
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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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Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It’s unbridled, its unplanned, it’s full of suprises.
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