Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
ERMA BOMBECKI worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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Success is outliving your failures.
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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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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.
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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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I 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.
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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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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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Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen Three. It takes one to say What light and two more to say I didn’t turn it on.
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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