My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
ERMA BOMBECK
Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
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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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Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It’s unbridled, its unplanned, it’s full of suprises.
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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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Friends are “annuals” that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a “perennial” that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There’s a place in the garden for both of them.
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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?
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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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Success is outliving your failures.
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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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One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
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It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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