It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
ERMA BOMBECKNever have more children than you have car windows.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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Every puppy should have a boy.
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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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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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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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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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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 the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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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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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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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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