Erma Bombeck Quotes

I have just come up with a wonderful solution to end all wars. Let me give directions on how to get there.

Erma Bombeck

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• You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Art
  • War
  • Enemy

• A lot of times, women complain about men around them. It's not always someone else's fault. If you're the common denominator in 57 different relationships that didn't work out, then maybe, just maybe... it's you!

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Work
  • Men
  • Different

• The Constitution's pretty clear. The Federalist papers are pretty clear... They very specifically delegated the power to declare war to Congress. They wanted this to be a congressional decision; they did not want war to be engaged in by the executive without approval of Congress.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Power
  • War
  • Pretty

• Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • Men
  • History

• All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented few, centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living as to have no aims higher than their bellies and no God greater than Gold.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • God
  • Men
  • College

• I'm a war baby: I was brought up with rationing, and my parents always had to struggle. I remember when I was sent to boarding school - Prior Park College in Bath - my father was asked how he was going to pay the fees, and he replied: 'In arrears.'

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Up
  • School
  • Remember

• Throughout the history of Iceland, men have been lost at sea; every family in Iceland is connected to that kind of story.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Men
  • Family
  • History

• It's especially gratifying to have done a film like 'Eight Men Out' because it's hard not to have fun when there are so many bats and balls around.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Men
  • Done
  • Fun

• America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpassed it after the chaos of World War II.

  

  Sam Kean
  • World
  • America
  • War

• I'm Russian: I'm into men, diamonds, and caviar.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Men
  • Diamonds
  • Caviar

• Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

  

  Beck
  • Men
  • Stars
  • Prison

• Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Men
  • Women
  • Selfishness

• On the wisdom with which we bring science to bear in the war against disease, in the creation of new industries, and in the strengthening of our Armed Forces depends in large measure our future as a nation.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • War
  • Future
  • Science

• I tend to approach giving interviews with the same sense of circumspection and restraint as I approach my writing. That is to say, virtually none.

  

  Ayelet Waldman
  • Writing
  • Giving

• Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.

  

  Algernon Sidney
  • Great
  • Men
  • Small

• Elected leaders in government and our men and women in uniform face a range of unprecedented challenges and pressures that demand innovative solutions.

  

  Marillyn Hewson
  • Men
  • Women

• War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

  

  Bill Moyers
  • War
  • Imagination
  • Failure

• The function of combat is not merely to perpetrate violence, but to perpetrate violence on command, instantaneously and reflexively. The function of the service academies is to prepare men for leadership positions where they may someday exercise that command.

  

  Jim Webb
  • Men
  • May
  • Violence

• Men, all men, were always trying to get hold of me, you know.

  

  Christine Keeler
  • Men
  • Trying

• You got me: I do Pilates. I love Pilates because we do very specific training in soccer for the same six or seven muscles, but we neglect so many other muscles. So when I do Pilates, it helps get all the rest of the muscles in shape and gets them working together.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Rest
  • Working
  • Helps

• The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature - translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus vitalizing this medium. The picture should be alive, the statue should be alive, and every work of art should be alive.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Work
  • Art
  • Nature

• A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate, For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.

  

  William Gifford
  • Hate
  • Fate
  • Shame

• I have just come up with a wonderful solution to end all wars. Let me give directions on how to get there.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Men
  • War
  • Giving