Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
ERMA BOMBECKIt seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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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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A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
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Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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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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I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie.
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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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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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Housework can kill you if done right.
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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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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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