When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
ERMA BOMBECKWhen my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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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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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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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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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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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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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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Every puppy should have a boy.
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
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