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.
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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Housework can kill you if done right.
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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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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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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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Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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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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I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night.
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Cats invented self-esteem.
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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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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation’s compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.
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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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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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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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