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.
ERMA BOMBECKPregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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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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It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
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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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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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He who laughs lasts.
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Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.
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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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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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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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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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