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Erma Bombeck82 quotes“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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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
Erma BombeckErma Bombeck My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
Erma BombeckErma Bombeck It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
Erma BombeckErma Bombeck Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
Erma BombeckErma Bombeck Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
Erma BombeckErma Bombeck When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.
Erma BombeckErma Bombeck 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.
Erma BombeckErma Bombeck A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
Erma BombeckErma Bombeck Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
Erma BombeckErma Bombeck Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can’t see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.
Erma BombeckErma Bombeck When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’.
Erma BombeckErma Bombeck There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
Erma BombeckErma Bombeck A member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. “What shall we name the other one?” I smiled. She was not amused.
Erma BombeckErma Bombeck As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
Erma BombeckErma Bombeck If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
Erma BombeckErma Bombeck All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
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