I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
ERMA BOMBECKKids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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Every puppy should have a boy.
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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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Success is outliving your failures.
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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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One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.
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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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One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
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A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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I haven’t trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I’ve never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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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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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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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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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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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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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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I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night.
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Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed.
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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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