530 Quotes by Erma Bombeck

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    When you're lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.

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    My son did not show signs of a money deficiency until he opened his small fist in the nursery and found it was empty.

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    With all the precautions and risks that accompany sex today, it sounds about as much fun as walking through a minefield.

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    Let me put it this way. According to my girth, I should be a ninety-foot redwood.

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    If I had my life to live over I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose before it melted in storage.

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    Never underestimate what it takes to watch someone you love in pain.

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    Our teen-agers withdrew to their bedrooms on their thirteenth birthday and didn't show themselves to us again until it was time to get married.

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    No baby shall at any time be quartered in a house where there are no soft laps, no laughter, or no love.

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