Housework can kill you if done right.
ERMA BOMBECKPeople usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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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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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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Some emotions don’t make a lot of noise. It’s hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint – like a heartbeat. And pure love – why, some days it’s so quiet, you don’t even know it’s there.
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It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE. Loosely translated, this means, You’re on your own, Bernice.
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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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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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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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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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Children make your life important.
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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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Women are never what they seem to be. There is the woman you see and there is the woman who is hidden. Buy the gift for the woman who is hidden.
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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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