Housework can kill you if done right.
ERMA BOMBECKMaybe 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.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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He who laughs lasts.
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All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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I remember thinking how often we look, but never see … we listen, but never hear … we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive.
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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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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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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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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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I was trampled to death by a man who believed his luggage would be the first piece off. If he were an experienced traveler, he would know that the first piece of luggage belongs to no one. It’s just a dummy suitcase to give everyone hope.
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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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Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen Three. It takes one to say What light and two more to say I didn’t turn it on.
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Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.
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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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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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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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