Success is outliving your failures.
ERMA BOMBECKI was trampled to death by a man who believed his luggage would be the first piece off. If he were an experienced traveler, he would know that the first piece of luggage belongs to no one. It’s just a dummy suitcase to give everyone hope.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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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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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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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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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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Friends are “annuals” that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a “perennial” that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There’s a place in the garden for both of them.
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Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
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Women are never what they seem to be. There is the woman you see and there is the woman who is hidden. Buy the gift for the woman who is hidden.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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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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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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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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The 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.
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There’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.
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