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.
ERMA BOMBECKSeize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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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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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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Success is outliving your failures.
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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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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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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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People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.
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When you’re lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
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