Success is outliving your failures.
ERMA BOMBECKOnce you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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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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People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.
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My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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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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One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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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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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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