If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
ERMA BOMBECKI am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Housework can kill you if done right.
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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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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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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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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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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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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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There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
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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 thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.
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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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One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
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It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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Children make your life important.
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