A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.
ERMA BOMBECKVolunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation’s compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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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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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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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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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
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He who laughs lasts.
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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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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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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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Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.
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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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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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