Success is outliving your failures.
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 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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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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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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For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
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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 got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night.
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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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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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Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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