He who laughs lasts.
ERMA BOMBECKGrandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie.
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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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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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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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Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.
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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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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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For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
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All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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I haven’t trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I’ve never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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