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’.
ERMA BOMBECKI am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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Housework can kill you if done right.
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Cats invented self-esteem.
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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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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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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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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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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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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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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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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.
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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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Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can’t see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.
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