Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.
ERMA BOMBECKVolunteers 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.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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Women are never what they seem to be. There is the woman you see and there is the woman who is hidden. Buy the gift for the woman who is hidden.
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He who laughs lasts.
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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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Success is outliving your failures.
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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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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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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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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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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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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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My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
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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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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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