Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
ERMA BOMBECKHousework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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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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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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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I’d have cherished ever moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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Every puppy should have a boy.
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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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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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The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?
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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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I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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