Friends are “annuals” that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a “perennial” that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There’s a place in the garden for both of them.
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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A member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. “What shall we name the other one?” I smiled. She was not amused.
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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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It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
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Every puppy should have a boy.
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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Success is outliving your failures.
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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn’t even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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Children make your life important.
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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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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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