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.
ERMA BOMBECKSeize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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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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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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Some emotions don’t make a lot of noise. It’s hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint – like a heartbeat. And pure love – why, some days it’s so quiet, you don’t even know it’s there.
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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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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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Success is outliving your failures.
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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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I was trampled to death by a man who believed his luggage would be the first piece off. If he were an experienced traveler, he would know that the first piece of luggage belongs to no one. It’s just a dummy suitcase to give everyone hope.
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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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Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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