I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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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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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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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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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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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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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.
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I haven’t trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I’ve never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
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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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Children make your life important.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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Cats invented self-esteem.
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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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