Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
ERMA BOMBECKI 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.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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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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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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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 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.
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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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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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As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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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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