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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
Erma BombeckErma Bombeck 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.
Erma BombeckErma Bombeck My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
Erma BombeckErma Bombeck It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
Erma BombeckErma Bombeck A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.
Erma BombeckErma Bombeck Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.
Erma BombeckErma Bombeck 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.
Erma BombeckErma Bombeck There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
Erma BombeckErma Bombeck It is my theory you can’t get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.
Erma BombeckErma Bombeck No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
Erma BombeckErma Bombeck I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
Erma BombeckErma Bombeck 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?
Erma BombeckErma Bombeck 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.
Erma BombeckErma Bombeck 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.
Erma BombeckErma Bombeck Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
Erma BombeckErma Bombeck Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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