Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
ERMA BOMBECKI’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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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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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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Friends are “annuals” that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a “perennial” that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There’s a place in the garden for both of them.
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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.
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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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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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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night.
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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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The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?
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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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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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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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