A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
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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There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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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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Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
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He who laughs lasts.
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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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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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I haven’t trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I’ve never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
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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.
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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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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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One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.
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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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