Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
ERMA BOMBECKI never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.
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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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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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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Housework can kill you if done right.
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The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.
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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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When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.
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Every puppy should have a boy.
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My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
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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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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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I remember thinking how often we look, but never see … we listen, but never hear … we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive.
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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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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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There’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.
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