Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
ERMA BOMBECKHousework can kill you if done right.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
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Cats invented self-esteem.
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It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
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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 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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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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For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
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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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When you’re lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
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A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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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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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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