Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
ERMA BOMBECKWhen my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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Success is outliving your failures.
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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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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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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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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Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It’s unbridled, its unplanned, it’s full of suprises.
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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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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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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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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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He who laughs lasts.
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The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.
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There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
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I was trampled to death by a man who believed his luggage would be the first piece off. If he were an experienced traveler, he would know that the first piece of luggage belongs to no one. It’s just a dummy suitcase to give everyone hope.
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