There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
ERMA BOMBECKI 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.
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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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
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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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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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Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
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It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
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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 grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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Cats invented self-esteem.
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Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen Three. It takes one to say What light and two more to say I didn’t turn it on.
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Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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