How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
ERMA BOMBECKHousework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.
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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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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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One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
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I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie.
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Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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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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As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
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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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Every puppy should have a boy.
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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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