Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
ERMA BOMBECKNo one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Children make your life important.
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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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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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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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE. Loosely translated, this means, You’re on your own, Bernice.
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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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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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I read one psychologist’s theory that said, “Never strike a child in your anger.” When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he’s recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday?
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Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.
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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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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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Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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