When 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’.
ERMA BOMBECKI 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.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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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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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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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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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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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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Children make your life important.
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Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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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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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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