When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.
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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He who laughs lasts.
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.
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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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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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Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.
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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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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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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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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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It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE. Loosely translated, this means, You’re on your own, Bernice.
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