Erma Bombeck Quotes

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

Erma Bombeck

• Happiness
• Humor
• Laughter

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• Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Good
  • Important
  • Remember

• I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Happy
  • Happiness
  • Sacrifice

• It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • God
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• Laughter made you live better and longer.

  

  Gail Parent
  • Live
  • Better
  • Laughter

• When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Person
  • Being
  • Laughter

• 90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Singing
  • Happiness
  • Story

• Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • True
  • Happiness

• There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Art
  • Happiness

• If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Long
  • Humor
  • Suicide

• I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim; in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Community

• I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Power
  • Laughter
  • Horror

• Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Sun
  • Winter
  • Laughter

• I have laughter dates with myself, where I find comics on YouTube and watch them. Louis C.K. was my first laughter date a couple years ago. I'll also watch those videos of people doing idiotic things. That cracks me up.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • People
  • Up
  • Myself

• My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Up
  • Family
  • Together

• Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Freedom
  • Happiness
  • U.S.

• Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • People
  • Remember
  • Giving

• My parents have always had a great sense of humor. And I really appreciate good humor in songs, witty lyrics that sneak up on you and then you listen again, and say: 'That's so funny.' John Prine's songs have always had this really witty tone.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Up
  • Good
  • Night

• Things that influence me are my kids, their happiness, colorfulness, and vitality. My husband - he comes up with some great quotes and ideas. God - He is the Ultimate artist. And what I see around me - flowers, leaves, trees, birds, fruit, vegetables.

  

  Mary Engelbreit
  • Up
  • Great
  • God

• It was really really neat to make the movie because there were mentally challenged actors in the movie. So that was really really cool to work with them and they were always really happy, and they made everybody really happy on the set too.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Happy

• I spent a lot of time when I was president, trying to end wars, prevent killing, and promote understanding. What I have seen is that peace works better than conflict, and one of the best manifestations of it is in travel and tourism.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • President
  • Conflict
  • Wars

• When humor goes, there goes civilization.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Happiness
  • Humor
  • Laughter