How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
ERMA BOMBECKFor years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Children make your life important.
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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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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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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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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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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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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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People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.
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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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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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I remember thinking how often we look, but never see … we listen, but never hear … we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive.
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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