People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.
ERMA BOMBECKThe grass is always greener over the septic tank.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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Every puppy should have a boy.
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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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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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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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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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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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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I was trampled to death by a man who believed his luggage would be the first piece off. If he were an experienced traveler, he would know that the first piece of luggage belongs to no one. It’s just a dummy suitcase to give everyone hope.
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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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Cats invented self-esteem.
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A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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Children make your life important.
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