It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
ERMA BOMBECKIt 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.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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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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My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
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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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Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
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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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Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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Success is outliving your failures.
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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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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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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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A member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. “What shall we name the other one?” I smiled. She was not amused.
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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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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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