Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
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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There’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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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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Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
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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 takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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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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Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.
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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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Success is outliving your failures.
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Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn’t even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.
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When you’re lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
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