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.
ERMA BOMBECKSometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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Success is outliving your failures.
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Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.
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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.
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Maybe 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.
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Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn’t even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.
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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.
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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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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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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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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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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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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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Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
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