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.
ERMA BOMBECKHumor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It’s unbridled, its unplanned, it’s full of suprises.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I’d have cherished ever moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.
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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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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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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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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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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen Three. It takes one to say What light and two more to say I didn’t turn it on.
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As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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