Erma Bombeck Quotes
93 Erma Bombeck quotes:
"I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it."
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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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"No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick."
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"All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them."
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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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"A child develops individuality long before he develops taste. I have seen my kid straggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory -- an empty bottle of gin."
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"Never order food in excess of your body weight."
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"The age of your children is a key factor in how quickly you are served in a restaurant. We once had a waiter in Canada who said, "Could I get you your check?" and we answered, "How about the menu first?"
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"Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving."
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"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."
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Medical Quotes
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"Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother."
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Moms Quotes
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"Dreams have but one owner at a time. That is why dreamers are lonely."
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"The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again."
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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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Child-raising Quotes
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"Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you."
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"In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television."
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"Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other."
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"A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday."
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"I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair."
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"The bad times I can handle. It's the good times that drive me crazy. When is the other shoe going to drop?"
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