Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
ERMA BOMBECKEncourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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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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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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My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
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He who laughs lasts.
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Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
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Every puppy should have a boy.
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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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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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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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Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It’s unbridled, its unplanned, it’s full of suprises.
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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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I 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.
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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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