Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
ERMA BOMBECKLike religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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I was trampled to death by a man who believed his luggage would be the first piece off. If he were an experienced traveler, he would know that the first piece of luggage belongs to no one. It’s just a dummy suitcase to give everyone hope.
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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Success is outliving your failures.
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.
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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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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’.
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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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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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It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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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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