He who laughs lasts.
ERMA BOMBECKThere’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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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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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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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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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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Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.
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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie.
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Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.
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A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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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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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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Children make your life important.
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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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