For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
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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A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
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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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Success is outliving your failures.
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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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Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
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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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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.
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Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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There’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.
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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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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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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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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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Friends are “annuals” that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a “perennial” that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There’s a place in the garden for both of them.
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