A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
ERMA BOMBECKHousework can kill you if done right.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I’d have cherished ever moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.
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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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It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
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A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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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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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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Every puppy should have a boy.
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I haven’t trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I’ve never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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Housework can kill you if done right.
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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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Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It’s unbridled, its unplanned, it’s full of suprises.
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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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Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can’t see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.
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I remember thinking how often we look, but never see … we listen, but never hear … we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive.
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