If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
ERMA BOMBECKSometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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Housework can kill you if done right.
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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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It is my theory you can’t get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.
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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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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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Children make your life important.
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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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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed.
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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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A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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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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