Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.
ERMA BOMBECKPregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.
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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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Cats invented self-esteem.
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Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
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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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Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed.
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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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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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All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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I haven’t trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I’ve never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
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Children make your life important.
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I read one psychologist’s theory that said, “Never strike a child in your anger.” When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he’s recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday?
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