Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
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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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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It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE. Loosely translated, this means, You’re on your own, Bernice.
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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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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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Cats invented self-esteem.
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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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Housework can kill you if done right.
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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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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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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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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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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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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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