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" Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It's like stealing a two-year-old. "
Erma Bombeck
Why
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Shopping
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" No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick. "
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Children
" When humor goes, there goes civilization. "
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Humor
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" When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'. "
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" When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911. "
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Nothing
Child
" Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments. "
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Just
Up
Going
" Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub. "
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" Never order food in excess of your body weight. "
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" Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you. "
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" Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, 'A house guest,' you're wrong because I have just described my kids. "
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" A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. "
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Husband
Wife
Birthday
" 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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Clothes
Society
Copy
" I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order. "
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Terrible
Die
Got
" I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.' "
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Time
Raising Children
" I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars. "
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Followed
Fitness
Them
" Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial. "
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Food
Like
Politics
" 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. "
Erma Bombeck
My Life
Lunch
Life
" Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely. "
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Dreams
Dreamers
Why
" A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend - and he's a priest. "
Erma Bombeck
You
Friend
Tell
" 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? "
Erma Bombeck
Fire
Door
Smell
" Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time. "
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Time
Car
Onion
" There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. "
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Humor
Laughter
Pain
" I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage. "
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Gravy
Where
Food
" Children make your life important. "
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Children
Important
" I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent. "
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Any
Accent
Woman
" All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them. "
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" Never have more children than you have car windows. "
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Windows
" Housework, if you do it right, will kill you. "
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Right
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" Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy. "
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Out
Design
" If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. "
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Man
Three
Watches
" Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother. "
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Mother
Infinite
White