How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
ERMA BOMBECKDid you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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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.
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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed.
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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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Success is outliving your failures.
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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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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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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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It is my theory you can’t get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.
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I read one psychologist’s theory that said, “Never strike a child in your anger.” When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he’s recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday?
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