Never have more children than you have car windows.
ERMA BOMBECKSometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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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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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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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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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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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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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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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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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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Children make your life important.
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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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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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