It is my theory you can’t get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.
ERMA BOMBECKSometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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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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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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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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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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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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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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When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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I read one psychologist’s theory that said, “Never strike a child in your anger.” When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he’s recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday?
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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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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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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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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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