How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
ERMA BOMBECKMy second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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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.
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People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.
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Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.
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Success is outliving your failures.
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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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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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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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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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Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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