I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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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If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I’d have cherished ever moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.
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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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There’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.
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A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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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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Success is outliving your failures.
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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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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Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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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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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’.
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When you’re lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
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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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Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.
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