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.
ERMA BOMBECKOne never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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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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The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?
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Children make your life important.
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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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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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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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One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
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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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I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.
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Success is outliving your failures.
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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