Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
ERMA BOMBECKWomen 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.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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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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He who laughs lasts.
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For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
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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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A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
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There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
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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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Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.
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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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People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.
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Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
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Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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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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Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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