It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
ERMA BOMBECKI’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It’s unbridled, its unplanned, it’s full of suprises.
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Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.
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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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Some emotions don’t make a lot of noise. It’s hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint – like a heartbeat. And pure love – why, some days it’s so quiet, you don’t even know it’s there.
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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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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 ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE. Loosely translated, this means, You’re on your own, Bernice.
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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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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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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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