Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
ERMA BOMBECKThere is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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A member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. “What shall we name the other one?” I smiled. She was not amused.
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The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?
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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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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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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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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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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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He who laughs lasts.
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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can’t see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.
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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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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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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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Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.
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