Children make your life important.
ERMA BOMBECKThe 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.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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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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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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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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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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A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’.
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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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He who laughs lasts.
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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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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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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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