Some emotions don’t make a lot of noise. It’s hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint – like a heartbeat. And pure love – why, some days it’s so quiet, you don’t even know it’s there.
ERMA BOMBECKOnion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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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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Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
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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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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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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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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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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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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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Success is outliving your failures.
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I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie.
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Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
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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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