Friends are “annuals” that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a “perennial” that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There’s a place in the garden for both of them.
ERMA BOMBECKWhen the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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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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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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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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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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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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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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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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Every puppy should have a boy.
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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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One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
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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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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
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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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