Children make your life important.
ERMA BOMBECKNever go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
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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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A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
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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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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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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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It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It’s unbridled, its unplanned, it’s full of suprises.
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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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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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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation’s compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.
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