How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
ERMA BOMBECKMaybe 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.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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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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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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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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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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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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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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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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It is my theory you can’t get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.
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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.
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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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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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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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