Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
ERMA BOMBECKIf you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Success is outliving your failures.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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Children make your life important.
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There’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.
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Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
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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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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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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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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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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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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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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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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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