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?
ERMA BOMBECKOnce you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.
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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A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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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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Housework can kill you if done right.
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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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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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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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When you’re lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen Three. It takes one to say What light and two more to say I didn’t turn it on.
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Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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