No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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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Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.
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He who laughs lasts.
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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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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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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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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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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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Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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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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Success is outliving your failures.
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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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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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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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